397Youth attendance order

397 Youth attendance order (a) the Court convicts a child of one or more offences for which the Court considers that the child would otherwise be sentenced to detention in a youth justice centre as a result of the gravity or habitual nature of the child's unlawful behaviour; and (b) on the day of sentencing, the child is of or above the age of 15 years— the Court may make a youth attendance order in respect of the child with a specified term not exceeding 12 months and not extending beyond his or her twenty-first birthday. (2) The power to make a youth attendance order is subject to the restrictions set out in section 398.