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YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 173

If child attends drug assessment and education session

173 If child attends drug assessment and education session

(1) This section applies if—
(a) a court refers a child to a drug assessment and education session and directs the child attend the session by a stated date; and
(b) the child attends the session by the stated date.
(2) The approved provider for the drug assessment and education session must give notice to the court’s proper officer that the child attended the session by the stated date.
(3) A notice under subsection (2)
(a) brings the court proceeding for the offence to an end; and
(b) the child is then not liable to be further prosecuted for the offence.
(4) On the day the notice is received by the court, the child is taken to have been found guilty by the court of the offence without a conviction being recorded.



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