Section 136 — Youth Criminal Justice Act: Inducing a young person, etc.

Every person who induces or assists a young person to leave unlawfully a place of custody or other place in which the young person has been placed in accordance with a youth sentence or a disposition imposed under the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, unlawfully removes a young person from a place referred to in paragraph (a), knowingly harbours or conceals a young person who has unlawfully left a place referred to in paragraph (a), wilfully induces or assists a young person to breach or disobey a term or condition of a youth sentence or other order of the youth justice court, or a term or condition of a disposition or other order under the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, or wilfully prevents or interferes with the performance by a young person of a term or condition of a youth sentence or other order of the youth justice court, or a term or condition of a disposition or other order under the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. The jurisdiction of a provincial court judge to try an adult charged with an indictable offence under this section is absolute and does not depend on the consent of the accused.