Youth Justice Act 2024

If an application to make, vary, revoke or extend a personal safety intervention order has been made against a child who was 10 or 11 years of age on the date of the making of the application, and that application has not been finally determined immediately before the commencement of Part 1.2 of the Youth Justice Act 2024, on the commencement of that Part—

the court must dismiss the application; and

any direction given under section 26(1) requiring the child and any other party to the application to attend a mediation assessment or mediation is of no effect; and

any order made under section 53(1) for the Secretary to provide an assessment report in respect of the child is, by virtue of this section, taken to be set aside.

As soon as reasonably practicable after an application has been dismissed under subsection (1), the court must notify the child and any other party to the application of the dismissal of that application.

Notice under subsection (2) must be given no later than the date on which the application was listed for its next hearing.