Title VIII A
in forceBijzondere bepalingen voor jeugdige personen
With regard to a person who, at the time of committing a criminal offence, has reached the age of twelve years but has not yet reached the age of…
The Public Prosecution Service is charged with the supervision of compliance with the conditions.
With regard to a person who, at the time of committing a criminal offence, has reached the age of sixteen but not yet the age of eighteen, the court…
Article 366a of the Code of Criminal Procedure shall apply mutatis mutandis to the notification of the conviction, in cases where Article 77x and 77z…
With regard to a person who, at the time of committing the criminal offence, has reached the age of eighteen but not yet the age of twenty-one, the…
The court that has imposed the condition may, upon receipt of a claim from the Public Prosecution Service or at the request of the convicted person…
The limitation period for the right to criminal prosecution, as referred to in Article 70, shall be reduced to half of the duration specified therein…
Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 77cc, the court may, if any stipulated condition is not complied with and it finds grounds to do so…
The investigative officer who has been designated for this purpose by the public prosecutor may, after having obtained the consent of the public…
If, in the context of the enforcement of a sanction, any decision is taken by making use of Articles 77k, 77l, paragraph 3, 77o, paragraph 4, 77p…
In a penalty order, the public prosecutor may also issue an instruction that the suspect shall comply with the directions of a foundation as referred…
The costs of juvenile detention and of placement in an institution for juveniles shall be borne by the State.
Instead of the penalties prescribed for an act, the penalties and measures provided for in this Title shall be imposed.
The penalties and measures referred to in this Title, for attempt, preparation, participation and complicity, are the same as those for the completed…
The principal penalties are:
The Child Care and Protection Board (Raad voor de kinderbescherming) is tasked with supervising the execution of probation activities as referred to…
The duration of juvenile detention is:
In exceptional cases, Our Minister of Justice may determine that the enforcement of juvenile detention shall be interrupted for a period not…
The penalty of juvenile detention may, by the court, upon the motion of the public prosecution service or upon the petition of the convicted person…
The amount of the fine shall be at least the amount referred to in Article 23, paragraph 2, and at most the maximum of a fine of the second category…
The judgment or the criminal order shall state whether the community service order consists of a work penalty, a training penalty, or a combination…
In the judgment by which a community service order is imposed, the court shall order that, in the event that the convicted person does not perform…
The Child Care and Protection Board (Raad voor de kinderbescherming) is tasked with the preparation and support of the execution of community service…
If the person sentenced to a community service order fails to commence the community service, fails to cooperate in the verification of their…
The Public Prosecution Service may only take a decision or issue an order pursuant to Article 77o, paragraph 2, or Article 77p, paragraph 1…
Deprivation of the authority to drive motor vehicles is only possible in the cases referred to in Articles 179, 179a and 180 of the Road Traffic Act…
The measure of placement in an institution for juveniles may only be imposed if
The court that has taken cognizance of the criminal offence in the first instance for which the measure was imposed may, upon the motion of the…
A decision pursuant to Article 77t shall be taken by order, after the convicted person and, if the latter is a minor, also those who exercise…
If juvenile detention or placement in an institution for juveniles is imposed, the court may include in its judgment an advisory opinion regarding…
The measure concerning the conduct of the juvenile may only be imposed if:
The court may determine that the programme referred to in Article 77w, paragraph 3, shall consist in whole or in part of a form of care as referred…
If the conduct of the convicted person gives cause for such, or if a modification of the measure is in the interest of the development of the…
In the judgment by which the measure concerning the conduct of the juvenile is imposed, the court shall order that, in the event that the convicted…
If the conduct of the convicted person gives cause for doing so and an extension is in the interest of the development of the convicted person, the…
In the event of a sentence to juvenile detention, excluding substitute juvenile detention, to a community service order, to a fine, to placement in…
The court that determines that a penalty or measure imposed by it shall not be executed, shall thereby set a probationary period of at most two years.
The application of Article 77x is subject to the general condition that the convicted person does not commit a criminal offence before the end of the…