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YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 2024 - SECT 231

Pre-sentence outcome plan

    (1)     Any agreement made by a child in a pre-sentence group conference must be recorded in a pre‑sentence outcome plan.

    (2)     The objects of a pre-sentence outcome plan are to—

        (a)     assist the child to take responsibility and make reparation for the child's actions; and

        (b)     support the child's positive development; and

        (c)     reduce the likelihood of the child reoffending.

    (3)     An agreement recorded in the pre-sentence outcome plan must be—

        (a)     fair; and

        (b)     measurable; and

        (c)     reasonably able to be carried out by the child, having regard to the child's age, maturity and individual circumstances; and

        (d)     no more punitive than the sentence that could be imposed on the child in respect of the offence of which the child has been found guilty.



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