16Powers of community conference

16 Powers of community conference

(1)  A community conference may impose one or more of the following sanctions:

(a) administer a caution against further offending;

(b) require the youth to enter into an undertaking to pay compensation for injury suffered by the victim or any other person by reason of the commission of the offence;

(c) require the youth to enter into an undertaking to pay compensation for loss or destruction of, or damage to, offence-affected property;

(d) require the youth to enter into an undertaking to make restitution of offence-affected property;

(e) [Section 16 Subsection (1) amended by No. 27 of 2013, s. 13, Applied:01 Mar 2014] if the youth is 13 or more years old, require the youth to enter into an undertaking to perform a specified period, not exceeding 70 hours, of community service;

(f) with the agreement of the victim of the offence, require the youth to enter into an undertaking to apologise to the victim;

(g) require the youth to enter into an undertaking to do anything else that may be appropriate in the circumstances of the case.

(2)  An undertaking may have a duration not exceeding 12 months.

(3)  [Section 16 Subsection (3) substituted by No. 27 of 2013, s. 13, Applied:01 Mar 2014] An undertaking must not be required under subsection (1)(e) if the effect would be to require the youth to undertake a number of hours of community service that would, when combined with the number of hours of community service the youth still has to perform under all community service orders, or all undertakings previously entered into under that subsection or section 10(2)(c) , total –

(a) more than 70 hours, if the youth is 13, 14 or 15 years old when required to enter into the undertaking; or

(b) more than 210 hours, if the youth is 16 or more years old when required to enter into the undertaking.