Clause 3

In the Children and Young Persons Act 1993, in section 39, after subsection (2D) (as inserted by section 4(1)(a) of the Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2022), insert —“(2E) If a child or young person is charged with offence A (not being an offence triable only by the General Division of the High Court) that may be tried together with offence B, and offence B is to be tried by the General Division of the High Court under subsection (2), then offence A may be heard and tried by the General Division of the High Court.(2F) If a young person of 16 years of age or older but below 18 years of age is charged with offence A that may be tried together with offence B, and offence B is to be tried by a court of appropriate jurisdiction other than the Youth Court under subsection (2A), then offence A may be heard and tried in that other court of appropriate jurisdiction.”.