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(1)Where a person who is not subject to a supervision requirement but is a person over the age of sixteen, and is not within six months of attaining the age of eighteen, is charged summarily with an offence and pleads guilty to, or has been found guilty of, that offence the court on that plea or finding may request the reporter of the local authority to arrange a children's hearing for the purpose of obtaining their advice as to the treatment of the person, and on consideration of that advice, the court may, as it thinks proper, itself dispose of the case or, where the hearing have so advised, remit the case to the reporter of the local authority for the disposal of the case by a children's hearing.
(2)Where a court has remitted a case under the foregoing subsection the provisions of this Part of this Act shall apply to that person as if he were a child.
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