Youth Criminal Justice Act

Marginal note:Application by Attorney General

• 64 (1) The Attorney General may, before evidence is called as to sentence or, if no evidence is called, before submissions are made as to sentence, make an application to the youth justice court for an order that a young person is liable to an adult sentence if the young person is or has been found guilty of an offence for which an adult is liable to imprisonment for a term of more than two years and that was committed after the young person attained the age of 14 years.

• (1.1) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 376]

• (1.2) [Repealed, 2019, c. 25, s. 376]

• Marginal note:Notice of intention to seek adult sentence

  (2) If the Attorney General intends to seek an adult sentence for an offence by making an application under subsection (1), the Attorney General shall, before the young person enters a plea or with leave of the youth justice court before the commencement of the trial, give notice to the young person and the youth justice court of the intention to seek an adult sentence.

• Marginal note:Included offences

  (3) A notice of intention to seek an adult sentence given in respect of an offence is notice in respect of any included offence of which the young person is found guilty for which an adult is liable to imprisonment for a term of more than two years.

• (4) and (5) [Repealed, 2012, c. 1, s. 176]