Youth Criminal Justice Act

Marginal note:Obligation to inform — parole

• 77 (1) When a young person is ordered to serve a portion of a sentence in a youth custody facility under paragraph 76(1)(a) (placement when subject to adult sentence), the provincial director shall inform the appropriate parole board.

• Marginal note:Applicability of Corrections and Conditional Release Act

  (2) For greater certainty, Part II of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act applies, subject to section 78, with respect to a young person who is the subject of an order under subsection 76(1) (placement when subject to adult sentence).

• Marginal note:Appropriate parole board

  (3) The appropriate parole board for the purposes of this section is

  • (a) if subsection 112(1) of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act would apply with respect to the young person but for the fact that the young person was ordered into a youth custody facility, the parole board mentioned in that subsection; and

  • (b) in any other case, the Parole Board of Canada.