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CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION

(6) the Minister at any time during the period of the child's

detention at a juvenile correctional centre, establishes

to the satisfaction of a Children's Court that the child is

of so recalcitrant a character that it is not expedient that

he should continue his detention at such centre.

(6) The court may, notwithstanding anything to the

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contrary, direct that the child be detained in such place

(including an adult correctional centre) and for such time, not

exceeding the unexpired portion of the period during which he

could have been detained in the juvenile correctional centre

under the authority of that order, and on such conditions as the

court may think fit.

(7) An order under this subsection may-

(a) require the child to remain at a place specified in the

order for a period of time so specified (hereinafter

called a curfew order);

(b) refer the matter for mediation by an approved mediator

(hereinafter referred to as a mediation order);

(c) require the child to perform unpaid work for such

number of hours (being in the aggregate not less than

forty nor more than three hundred and sixty) as may be

specified in the order (hereinafter referred to as a

community service order).

(8)

The following provisions of the Criminal Justice

(Reform) Act shall apply, with the necessary modifications, to

an order under subsection (7)-

(a) in the case of a curfew order, sections 13(2) to (6) and

14;

(b) in the case of a mediation order, section 16(2) to (7),

so, however, that the child's parent or guardian shall be

the participating party in the mediation on behalf of the

child;

(c) in the case of a community service order, section lO(2)

to (5) and the proviso to section lO(1).

(9)

A court before whom any child in respect of whom

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