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Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
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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.