Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The District Court does not have jurisdiction to try a child charged with an indictable offence, unless otherwise expressly provided by an Act.
(2) Subject to this division, the District Court has jurisdiction—
(a) to try a child on an indictment in which the child is also charged as an adult with an offence; or
(b) to try a child in proceedings removed to the court under the Youth Justice Act 1992, part 6, division 8, subdivision 2; or
(c) to sentence a child for an offence if the child is appearing before it also for sentence as an adult on a charge of an offence.
(3) In exercising jurisdiction to sentence a child under subsection (2), the court may also sentence the child under the Criminal Code, section 651.
(4) In this section—
adult means an adult within the meaning of the Youth Justice Act 1992.
child means a child within the meaning of the Youth Justice Act 1992.