Supreme Court or County Court may exercise sentencing powers of Children's Court
241 Supreme Court or County Court may exercise sentencing powers of Children's Court
Without limiting any other power of the Supreme Court, the powers that the Supreme Court or the County Court may exercise in sentencing a child for an indictable offence include the power to impose any sentence which the Children's Court may impose under this Act but an order that the child be detained in a youth justice custodial centre must be made in accordance with Subdivision (4) of Division 2 of Part 3 of the Sentencing Act 1991.
In sentencing a child who is 16 years of age or over but under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of an indictable offence, the Supreme Court or the County Court is to have regard to any requirement in the Sentencing Act 1991 that a specified minimum non-parole period of imprisonment be imposed, had the offence been committed by an adult.
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