Juvenile courts

(1) A court established under Part II of the Family Courts Act, Cap. 93, when hearing charges against children or young persons shall, unless the child or young person is charged jointly with any other person not being a child or young person, sit either in a different building or room from that in which the ordinary sittings of the court are held, or on different days or at different times from those at which the ordinary sittings are held, and a court so sitting is in this Act referred to as a juvenile court. (2) Where in the course of any proceedings in a juvenile court it appears to the court that the person charged or to whom the proceedings relate is under the age of eighteen years, or where in the course of any proceedings in any court other than a juvenile court it appears that the person charged or to whom the proceedings relate is under the age of eighteen years, nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing the court, if it thinks it undesirable to adjourn the case, from proceeding with the hearing and determination of the case. (3) Provision shall be made for preventing persons apparently under the age of eighteen years whilst being conveyed to or from court, or whilst waiting before or after their attendance in court, from association with adults charged with or convicted of any offence other than an offence with which the person apparently under the age of eighteen years is jointly charged or convicted. (4) Subject to subsection (5) of this section, in a juvenile court no person other than the members and officers of the court and the parties to the case, their solicitors and counsel, and other persons directly concerned in the case, shall, except by leave of the court, be allowed to attend. 7 (5) Bona fide representatives of a newspaper or news agency shall not be excluded, except by special order of the (6) No person shall publish the name, address, school, photograph or anything likely to lead to the identification of the child or young person before the juvenile court, except with the permission of the court or in so far as required by the provisions of this Act, and every person who acts in contravention of this subsection shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. (7) No person shall publish the name, address, school, photograph or anything likely to lead to the identification of a child or young person involved as an accused person or a witness in the commission of an offence, and every person who acts in contravention of this subsection commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.