Western Australian Current Acts

YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 120

120 .         Custodial sentence is sentence of last resort

        (1)         The court cannot impose any custodial sentence unless it is satisfied that there is no other appropriate way for it to dispose of the matter.

        (2)         A court that imposes on a young person a custodial sentence is to give written reasons why it considers that there is no other appropriate way for it to dispose of the matter.

        (3)         In subsection (2) —

        written reasons includes reasons that are —

            (a)         given orally and subsequently transcribed; or

            (b)         given orally but also recorded electronically in a format that enables them to be subsequently transcribed.

        [Section 120 amended: No. 20 of 2013 s. 142.]