Youth Justice Regulation 2016

This section applies if a court orders the chief executive to give to the court a pre-sentence report under section 151(1) of the Act.

In having regard, under section 151(6) of the Act, to the likely complexity of the pre-sentence report, the matters the court may consider include the following—

the number of offences to which the report relates;

the nature and seriousness of the offence to which the report relates and the circumstances in which the offence was committed;

any other matter the court considers relevant to the likely complexity of the report.