236Sentence discount for assistance given or being given to law enforcement authorities

236 Sentence discount for assistance given or being given to law enforcement authorities

(1) In sentencing a child for an offence, if the Children's Court imposes a less severe sentence than it would otherwise have imposed because of assistance given, or being given, by the child to law enforcement authorities in the investigation or prosecution of an offence, the Court must cause to be noted in the records of the Court—

(a) that it is doing so; and

(b) the fact assistance was given, or is being given, and the details of the assistance.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) requires the Children's Court to state the sentence that it would have imposed but for the assistance that was given or will be given.

(3) The failure of the Children's Court to comply with this section—

(b) does not prevent a court on an appeal against sentence from reviewing a sentence imposed by the Children's Court in circumstances where there has been a failure to comply with this section.