What happens when a person who committed an offence when he or she was a young person for becomes twenty years old?
If the person is twenty years or older at the time of being sentenced, the person shall be committed to a provincial correctional facility for adults to serve the youth sentence. If the young person is in a youth custody facility when the young person attains the age of twenty years, the young person shall be transferred to a correctional facility for adults. Where any young person has attained the age of twenty years, the provincial director may make application to the youth justice court for transfer of the young person to a penitentiary, where the sentence or portion remaining to be served is more than two years.
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- What happens when a young person commits an offence with a start date before the commencement of the YRO and an end date after the commencement of a YRO e.g. fraud and sex offences?
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