Children and Young Persons Act 1933

56 Power of other courts to remit juvenile offenders to [F1youth courts]. E+W

(1)Any court by or before which a [F2child or] young person is found guilty of an offence other than homicide, may, [F3and, if it is not a [F1youth court], shall unless satisfied that it would be undesirable to do so] remit the case to a [F1youth court] acting for the place where the offender was committed for trial, or, if he was not committed for trial, to a [F1youth court] acting either for the same place as the remitting court or for the place where the offender [F4habitually resides]; and, where any such case is so remitted, the offender shall be brought before a [F1youth court] accordingly, and that court may deal with him in any way in which it might have dealt with him if he had been tried and found guilty by that court.

[F5(1A)References in subsection (1) above to an offender’s being committed for trial include references to his being sent for trial under section 51 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.]

[F6(2)Where any case is so remitted—

(a)the offender shall have the same right of appeal against any order of the court to which the case is remitted as if he had been found guilty by that court, but shall have no right of appeal against the order of remission; and

(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7]

(3)A court by which an order remitting a case to a [F1youth court] is made under this section may [F8, subject to section 25 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994,] give such directions as appear to be necessary with respect to the custody of the offender or for his release on bail until he can be brought before the [F1youth court], and shall cause to be transmitted to the clerk of the [F1youth court] a certificate setting out the nature of the offence and stating that the offender has been found guilty thereof, and that the case has been remitted for the purpose of being dealt with under this section.