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Bills / Bill 30 of 2023

Public bill

Criminal Justice (Juvenile Offenders) Bill 2023

Lapsed Most recent stage: First Stage

How far it has got

  1. First Stage
  2. Second Stage
  3. Committee Stage
  4. Report Stage
  5. Fifth Stage
  6. Enacted

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What the bill says it does

Bill entitled an Act to amend the Criminal Justice Act 1990 to provide for non-mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders in cases of treason and murder, to expand the provisions of section 99 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 relating to suspended sentences to include juvenile offenders, and to amend the Children Act 2001 to allow judicial discretion in setting the terms of a detention and supervision order.

This is the bill's official long title.