[F1103KSHPOs and interim SHPOs: supplementaryE+W
(1)Rules of court—
(a)may provide for a youth court to give permission for an application under section 103A(4) against a person aged 18 or over to be made to the youth court if—
(i)an application to the youth court has been made, or is to be made, under that section against a person aged under 18, and
(ii)the youth court thinks that it would be in the interests of justice for the applications to be heard together;
(b)may, in relation to a person attaining the age of 18 after proceedings against that person by virtue of section 103A, 103E, 103F or 103G(6) or (7) have begun—
(i)prescribe circumstances in which the proceedings may or must remain in the youth court;
(ii)make provision for the transfer of the proceedings from the youth court to a magistrates' court that is not a youth court (including provision applying section 103F with modifications).
(2)A person's age is treated for the purposes of sections 103A to 103J and this section as being that which it appears to the court to be after considering any available evidence.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 103A-103K and cross-heading inserted (8.3.2015) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1), Sch. 5 para. 2 (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93, 114(1)(3)-(6)); S.I. 2015/373, art. 2(e)