Criminal Justice Act 1961

8 Fines for young offenders

(1) The limit imposed by section thirty-two of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, upon the amount of the fine which may be imposed by a magistrates' court on finding guilty an offender under fourteen years of age shall be raised from forty shillings to ten pounds.

(2) The limit imposed by subsection (5) of section twenty of the said Act upon the amount of the fine which may be imposed by a magistrates' court on finding guilty a person under seventeen but not less than fourteen years of age who is charged with an offence other than a summary offence shall be raised from ten pounds to fifty pounds.

(3) Where a person under seventeen years of age is found guilty by a magistrates' court of an offence for which, apart from this subsection, the court would have power to impose a fine of an amount exceeding fifty pounds, the amount of any fine imposed by the court shall not exceed fifty pounds.

(4) Subsection (1) of section fifty-five of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (which provides for the payment by parents or guardians of fines, damages or costs incurred by children or young persons) shall apply in relation to compensation for loss under subsection (2) of section eleven of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, and to any sums which the court has power to award under section four of the Forfeiture Act, 1870, or section thirty-four of the Magistrates' Courts Act, 1952, as it applies in relation to damages or costs.