Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 315

315 Application of Act to matters before Juvenile Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1996

(1) This Act as amended by a provision of the amendment Act applies to an offence committed, and proceeding started, before the commencement of the provision.

(2) However—

(a) a person can not be sentenced more severely for an offence committed before the commencement of a provision of the amendment Act than would have been the case if the provision had not been enacted; and

(b) a caution administered before the commencement of section 18N or 18O can not be disclosed to a court or anyone after the commencement of the section if the disclosure could not have been made if the section had not been enacted.

(c) a parent of a child can not be ordered under section 259 to pay compensation for an offence committed by the child before the commencement of section 63 of the amendment Act that the parent could not have been ordered to pay before the commencement.

Note—

Sections 18N and 18O commenced on 15 August 1996 and were repealed by the Juvenile Justice Amendment Act 2002.

(3) Subsection (2) (a) is about punishment level and does not stop a court making orders against anyone of a type or number only available because of the amendment Act.

(4) In this section—

"amendment Act" means the Juvenile Justice Legislation Amendment Act 1996.