Important definitions in Juvenile Law No 1 of the year 1994

Juvenile: Every male or female who has completed seven years of age and not reached sixteen years at the time the crime was committed or when he was involved in any cases of exposure to the deviation.

Juvenile prone to delinquency: each juvenile who is found in one of the following cases:

• If he practices any work that cannot be a resource to live.
•  If he commits sexual and moral offenses or crimes of morals and ethics, or crimes of liquor, gambling and begging, or crimes of dangerous drugs and psychotropic substances or assist the perpetrators of the same.
• If he joins the displaced or suspects or those who become notorious for their bad conduct or wrong morals.
• If he used to run away from home or from education or training institutes.
• If he was ungrateful and rogue to parents’ authority or the authority of his guardians.
• If he does not have a stable place for residence or if he was usually spending the night in the streets or in other places not intended for residence or overnight stay.

Deviant juvenile: each juvenile who has committed a crime or misdemeanor.
Juvenile Court: One of the Lower Criminal Court circles that is formed as per the decision of the chairman of the courts of justice to take decision in juvenile cases.
Juvenile Police: one of the police divisions which is formed as per the decision of the Minister of Interior Affairs, which is devoted to juveniles.