Section 5Part 2 — Youth Courts and Proceedings with Respect to Young Persons
Assignment of summary charges to courts
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5. (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (5), no charge against a young person with respect to a summary offence shall be heard by a court of summary jurisdiction which is not a youth court.
A charge with respect to a summary offence made jointly against a young person and a person who has attained the age of seventeen years shall be heard by a court of summary jurisdiction other than a youth court.
Where a young person is charged with a summary offence, the charge may be heard by a court of summary jurisdiction which is not a youth court if a person who has attained the age of seventeen years is charged at the same time with aiding, abetting, causing, procuring, allowing or permitting that offence.
Where, in the course of any proceedings before any court of summary jurisdiction other than a youth court, it appears that the person to whom the proceedings relate is a young person, nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as preventing the court, if it thinks fit to do so, from proceeding with the hearing and determination of those proceedings.
The provisions of this section are subject to the power of a judge of the Grand Court conferred by section 7. Section 6 Youth Justice Act (2021 Revision) Page 10 Revised as at 31st December, 2020 c