Western Australian Current Acts

YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 51

51 .         Responsible adult to be present for certain orders

        (1)         The court cannot make a youth community based order or an intensive youth supervision order or impose a custodial sentence unless there is a responsible adult present before the court or it considers that there is sufficient reason for it to make the order even though a responsible adult is not present.

        (2)         An order is not invalid by reason only that, contrary to subsection (1), it was made without a responsible adult being present.