Supplementary Provisions

This Act comes into effect as of January 1, 1949.

In these Supplementary Provisions, the "former Act" means the previous Juveniles Act (Act No. 42 of 1922).

With regard to a person who, before this Act came into effect, committed a crime while under 16 years of age, the provisions of Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Former Act continue to govern.

With respect to a juvenile who has been subjected to a disposition for rehabilitation of an adjudicated delinquent under Article 4 of the Former Act, a criminal prosecution may not be instituted, nor may the juvenile be subjected to a trial and decision in a family court, for a case in which a criminal prosecution cannot be instituted under the provisions of Article 63 of the Former Act.

The provisions of Article 60 also apply to a person who, before this Act came into effect, was sentenced, for a crime committed as a juvenile, to death, to imprisonment with work for life prescribed in Article 12 of the Penal Code prior to amendment by Article 2 of the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "Former Penal Code"), or to imprisonment without work for life prescribed in Article 13 of the Former Penal Code, and who has served the term of the sentence through commutation of sentence or on other grounds, or who has been exempted from execution of the sentence.