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CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 400

Concurrent orders

    (1)     If a person is convicted on the same day, or in the same proceeding, of more than one offence—

        (a)     the aggregate period of any youth attendance orders imposed in respect of the offences must not exceed 12 months or extend beyond the person's twenty-first birthday; and

        (b)     if the Court makes a youth attendance order in relation to an offence and directs that the person be detained in a youth justice centre in respect of another offence, the aggregate term of attendance and detention in respect of all of the offences must not exceed 3 years.

    (2)     Despite anything to the contrary in any Act, every youth attendance order imposed on a person by the Court shall, unless otherwise directed by the Court at the time of making the youth attendance order, be, as from the date of its commencement, served concurrently with any uncompleted youth attendance order or orders imposed on that person, whether previously to or at the time the relevant order was made.

    (3)     If the Court imposes a youth attendance order on a person who has not completed another youth attendance order, it may direct that the order being imposed be served in part concurrently with the other order or wholly cumulatively on it.



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