Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 252F

252F General options available to a court before which a child is ordered to appear

(1) This section applies if—

(a) the chief executive applies to a Childrens Court magistrate under section 252C for a finding that a child has contravened a supervised release order; and

(b) under section 252D , the magistrate orders the child to appear before another court; and

(c) the child appears before the other court; and

(d) the other court is satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of the matter alleged against the child in the chief executive’s application.

(2) This section also applies if —

(a) a child has been ordered by a court to appear before another court under section 252E ; and

(b) the child appears before the other court.

(3) The other court may—

(a) if the court considers the child should be given a further opportunity to satisfy the conditions of the order—order that no further action be taken; or

(b) order the child to be returned to the detention centre and set a day on which the chief executive must make another supervised release order releasing the child from detention; or

(c) order the child to be returned to the detention centre for the unexpired part of the child’s sentence.

(4) For subsection (1) (d) , the proceeding before the other court must be heard and decided by a judge sitting without a jury.