Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 327

327 Community conferencing

(1) From the relevant commencement, new part 2 , division 3 , new part 3 and new part 7 , division 2 apply in relation to an offence, even if the offence was—

(a) committed before the relevant commencement; or

(b) referred for a community conference before the relevant commencement.

(2) If a community conference agreement is made before the relevant commencement, from the relevant commencement—

(a) the agreement is taken to be a youth justice conference agreement; and

(b) the child who made the agreement is, in relation to the agreement, subject to the provisions of this Act about youth justice conference agreements as if the agreement were made after the relevant commencement.

(3) If—

(a) before the relevant commencement—

(i) an offence was referred to a community conference; and

(ii) any possible procedure relating to the reference had not been finalised; and

(b) subsection (2) does not apply;

from the relevant commencement, the provisions of the new Act apply as if the offence had been referred for a youth justice conference after the relevant commencement.

(4) The amending Act has no effect on the validity of anything done in relation to the referral under the current Act and no step in the process of a referral is required to be taken again because of the amending Act.

(5) In this section—

"relevant commencement" means the commencement of section 7 of the amending Act to the extent it inserts part 2 , division 3 and part 3 in this Act and the commencement of sections 55 to 63 of the amending Act.