40. If a person has reasonable cause to believe that a child has committed an offence against any act or regulation in force in Québec, the director shall be seized of the case before the institution of any judicial proceeding.
The first paragraph does not apply to an offence against the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.1), except an offence contemplated in section 162 of the said Code, to a regulation made under the said Code nor to a municipal parking or traffic by-law.
1977, c. 20, s. 40; 1981, c. 2, s. 10; 1981, c. 7, s. 536.