Victorian Numbered Acts

CHILDREN AND JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (YOUTH JUSTICE REFORM) ACT 2017 (NO. 43 OF 2017) - SECT 12

    (1)     After section 362(4) of the Principal Act insert —

    "(4A)     If sentencing of a child is deferred for the purpose of the child's participation in a youth control order planning meeting and the child has failed to participate in the meeting, the Court must not impose a sentence more severe than it would have imposed had sentencing not been so deferred.".

    (2)     After section 362(6) of the Principal Act insert —

    "(7)     A reference in subsection (3) or (4) to a group conference does not include a reference to a group conference ordered under section 409F(2)(g).".