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CRIMES (MENTAL IMPAIRMENT AND UNFITNESS TO BE TRIED) ACT 1997 - SECT 38P

Children's Court may make orders pending investigation into fitness

If the Children's Court reserves for investigation the question of the fitness of a child to stand trial, it may make any one or more of the following orders—

        (a)     an order granting the child bail;

        (b)     an order remanding the child in custody;

        (c)     if it is of the opinion that it is in the interests of justice to do so, an order—

              (i)     that the child undergo an examination by a registered medical practitioner or registered psychologist; and

              (ii)     that the results of the examination be put before the court;

        (d)     any other order the court thinks appropriate.

S. 38Q
inserted by No. 55/2014 s. 125 (as amended by No. 79/2014 s. 48).



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