Youth Criminal Justice Act
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 147 — Statements not admissible against young person
Subject to subsection (2), if a young person is assessed in accordance with an order made under subsection 34(1) (medical or psychological assessment), no statement or reference to a statement made…
Section 148 — Testimony of a parent
In any proceedings under this Act, the testimony of a parent as to the age of a person of whom he or she is a parent is admissible as evidence of the age of that person. In any proceedings under this…
Section 149 — Admissions
A party to any proceedings under this Act may admit any relevant fact or matter for the purpose of dispensing with proof of it, including any fact or matter the admissibility of which depends on a…
Section 150 — Material evidence
Any evidence material to proceedings under this Act that would not but for this section be admissible in evidence may, with the consent of the parties to the proceedings and if the young person is…
Section 151 — Evidence of a child or young person
The evidence of a child or a young person may be taken in proceedings under this Act only after the youth justice court judge or the justice in the proceedings has if the witness is a child,…
Section 152 — Proof of service
For the purposes of this Act, service of any document may be proved by oral evidence given under oath by, or by the affidavit or statutory declaration of, the person claiming to have personally…
Section 153 — Seal not required
It is not necessary to the validity of any information, indictment, summons, warrant, minute, sentence, conviction, order or other process or document laid, issued, filed or entered in any…
Section 154 — Forms
The forms prescribed under section 155, varied to suit the case, or forms to the like effect, are valid and sufficient in the circumstances for which they are provided. In any case for which forms…
Section 155 — Regulations
The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing forms that may be used for the purposes of this Act; establishing uniform rules of court for youth justice courts across Canada, including…
Section 156 — Agreements with provinces
Any minister of the Crown may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, enter into an agreement with the government of any province providing for payments by Canada to the province in respect of…
Section 157 — Community-based programs
The Attorney General of Canada or a minister designated by the lieutenant governor in council of a province may establish the following types of community-based programs: programs that are an…
Section 158 — Prohibition on proceedings
On and after the coming into force of this section, no proceedings may be commenced under the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, in respect of an offence…
Section 159 — Proceedings commenced under Young Offenders Act
Subject to section 161, where, before the coming into force of this section, proceedings are commenced under the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, in respect…
Section 160
[Repealed, 2012, c. 1, s. 193]
Section 161 — Applicable sentence
A person referred to in section 159 who is found guilty of an offence or delinquency, other than a person convicted of an offence in ordinary court, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Young…
Section 162 — Commencement of proceedings
For the purposes of sections 158 and 159, proceedings are commenced by the laying of an information or indictment.
Section 163 — Application to delinquency and other offending behaviour
Sections 114 to 129 apply, with any modifications that the circumstances require, in respect of records relating to the offence of delinquency under the Juvenile Delinquents Act , chapter J-3 of the…
Section 164 — Agreements continue in force
Any agreement made under the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, remains in force until it expires, unless it is amended or a new agreement is made under this…
Section 165 — Designation of youth justice court
Any court established or designated as a youth court for the purposes of the Young Offenders Act , chapter Y-1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, is deemed, as of the coming into force of this…
Section * 200 — Coming into force
The provisions of this Act come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.