Section 49 — Youth Criminal Justice Act: Warrant of committal
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When a young person is committed to custody, the youth justice court shall issue or cause to be issued a warrant of committal. A young person who is committed to custody may, in the course of being transferred from custody to the court or from the court to custody, be held under the supervision and control of a peace officer or in any place of temporary detention referred to in subsection 30(1) that the provincial director may specify. Subsection 30(3) (detention separate from adults) applies, with any modifications that the circumstances require, in respect of a person held in a place of temporary detention under subsection (2).
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