6. The provisions specially relating to persons under eighteen years of age also apply to persons eighteen years of age or over in respect of offences committed by them before they were eighteen years of age.
However, article 7 does not apply to persons who are 20 years of age or over on the date their detention begins.
1987, c. 96, a. 6; 2017, c. 182017, c. 18, s. 921.