Australian Capital Territory Numbered Ordinances

Children's Services (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Children’s Services (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

No. 18 of 1988

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 21 April 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Children’s Services Ordinance 1986

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Children’s Services (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.¹

Commencement

2. This Ordinance shall come into operation on 26 April 1988.

Substitute

3. Section 63 of the Children’s Services Ordinance 1986² is repealed and the following section substituted:

Powers of Supreme Court

“63. (1) Where a child is convicted of an offence by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court may—

(a) make such order with respect to the child, issue such warrants, and do such other acts and things, as the Childrens Court could have made, issued or done if the child had been convicted by the Childrens Court;

(b) make an order committing the child to an institution or a State institution for a specified period not longer than the period of imprisonment that could have been imposed in respect of the offence if the offence had been committed by an adult; or

(c) deal with the child in any way in which it might have dealt with the child if he or she had been an adult at the time of the commission of the offence.

“(2) Where, pursuant to paragraph (1) (c), a child is sentenced to imprisonment, the sentence has effect subject to any law of a State in which the child is detained relating to the detention of young persons (however described).”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 22 April 1988.

2. No. 13, 1986 as amended by Nos. 28 and 53, 1987.