293ADisqualification from driving

1. Where a charge against a young person is proved before the Youth Court, and the offence or the circumstances in which it was committed are such that the District Court would, on entering a conviction for that offence,—

2. be empowered under section 124 of the Sentencing Act 2002 to make an order disqualifying the offender from holding or obtaining a driver's licence; or
3. be required or empowered under the Land Transport Act 1998 to make an order disqualifying the offender from holding or obtaining a driver's licence; or
4. be required to make an order under section 65 of the Land Transport Act 1998 requiring the offender to attend an Assessment Centre and disqualifying the person from holding or obtaining a driver's licence,—
then the Youth Court may make such order (being an order of any of the kinds referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c)) as would have been obligatory or could have been ordered under any of those sections if the young person were an adult and had been convicted of the offence in a court other than the Youth Court.

5. Where the Youth Court makes an order pursuant to subsection (1)(a), the provisions of sections 124 to 126 of the Sentencing Act 2002 shall apply accordingly.

6. Subject to subsection (5), where the Youth Court makes an order pursuant to subsection (1)(b) or (c), Parts 5 to 7 of the Land Transport Act 1998 shall apply, so far as applicable and with any necessary modifications, as if the order had been made under that Act.

7. In determining, for the purposes of paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) of subsection (1), whether any order would have been obligatory or could have been ordered under any of the sections referred to in either of those paragraphs, a finding (whether made before or after the commencement of this section), by a Children and Young Persons Court or the Youth Court, that a young person is proved to have committed an offence referred to in section 32(1) or section 65(1) of the Land Transport Act 1998 (not being an offence in respect of which an order has been made under section 282 of this Act or section 35 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1974) shall be deemed to be a conviction for that offence.

8. Where the Youth Court makes an order pursuant to subsection (1)(c) in respect of a young person, that young person shall not be required to pay the Assessment Centre fee payable under section 65(4) of the Land Transport Act 1998 in respect of that order unless the Youth Court, being satisfied that the young person has the capacity to pay that fee within a period of 12 months from the date on which the fee is payable, so orders.