409BCourt may make youth control order

409B Court may make youth control order (1) The Court may make a youth control order in respect of a child if— (a) the Court convicts the child of one or more offences whether indictable or summary; and (b) the Court considers that the child would otherwise be sentenced to detention in a youth justice centre or a youth residential centre as a result of the gravity or habitual nature of the child's unlawful behaviour. (2) The term of a youth control order must not exceed 12 months and must not extend beyond the child's twenty-first birthday. (3) The power to make a youth control order is subject to the restrictions set out in section 409C. S. 409C inserted by No. 43/2017 s. 13.