Children and Young Persons (Community Service Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

No. S 641

Children and Young Persons Act

(CHAPTER 38)

Children and Young Persons
(Community Service Orders) (Amendment)
Regulations 2014

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 88 of the Children and Young Persons Act, the Minister for Social and Family Development hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Children and Young Persons (Community Service Orders) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 and shall come into operation on 1 October 2014.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Children and Young Persons (Community Service Orders) Regulations 2001 (G.N. No. S 476/2001) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definitions of “community service order” and “family conference” and substituting the following definitions:

“ “community service order” means an order made by the Youth Court under section 44(1)(f) of the Act and includes an order made by the Youth Court for the purpose of giving effect to a requirement of a juvenile case conference under section 45(1)(d) of the Act;

“juvenile case conference” means a juvenile case conference convened under section 45 of the Act;”; and

(b)

by deleting the words “Juvenile Court” in paragraph (b) of the definition of “offender” and substituting the words “Youth Court”.

Amendment of regulation 4

3. Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “Juvenile Court” and substituting the words “Youth Court”; and
(b)	by deleting the words “44(1D) or 44A(3)” in paragraph (b) and substituting the words “44(5) or 45(3)”.

Amendment of regulation 8

4. Regulation 8(5) of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “the Magistrate of the Juvenile Court” and substituting the words “a judge of the Youth Court”; and
(b)	by deleting “44(1D)” and substituting “44(5)”.

Amendment of regulation 9

5. Regulation 9 of the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words “Juvenile Court” in paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5) and (6) and substituting in each case the words “Youth Court”; and
(b)	by deleting “44(1D)(b)” in paragraph (6) and substituting “44(5)(b)”.

Miscellaneous amendments

6. The principal Regulations are amended —

(a)

by deleting the words “Juvenile Court” wherever they appear in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Youth Court”:

Regulations 3(1), 5 and 7(c); and

(b)

by deleting the words “family conference” in regulation 3(1)(b) and substituting the words “Juvenile case conference”.

[G.N. No. S 497/2001]

Made on 26 September 2014.

CHAN HENG KEE

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Social and Family Development,
Singapore.

[76-06-01 v47; AG/LLRD/SL/38/2010/13 Vol. 1]

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