Hong Kong Ordinances

JUVENILE OFFENDERS ORDINANCE - SECT 3F

Power of other courts to remit juvenile offenders to juvenile courts

(1) If a child or young person is found guilty of an offence other than
homicide by any court other than a juvenile court, the court shall, unless
satisfied that it would be undesirable to do so, remit the case to a juvenile
court; and where any such case is so remitted the offender shall be brought
before the juvenile court accordingly, and that court may deal with him in any
way in which it might have dealt with him if he had been tried and found
guilty by that court.

(2) Where any case is so remitted-

   (a)  the offender shall have the same right of appeal against any order of
        the juvenile court to which the case is remitted as if he had been
        found guilty by that court, but shall have no right of appeal against
        the order of remission; and

   (b)  any appeal against the finding of guilt shall be made in accordance
        with the provisions for appeal against the finding of the remitting
        court and the time within which such appeal shall be made shall run
        from the date of the final order of the juvenile court to which the
        case was remitted.

(3) A court by which an order remitting a case to a juvenile court is made
under this section may give such directions as appear to be necessary for the
custody of the offender or for his release on bail until he can be brought
before the juvenile court, and shall cause to be transmitted to the juvenile
court a certificate setting out the nature of the offence and stating that the
offender has been found guilty thereof, and that the case has been remitted
for the purpose of being dealt with under this section. (Added 15 of 1973 s.
4) [cf. 1933 c. 12 s. 56 U.K.]