The Infant Convicts Act 1849 [21/1849 (13 Vic. No.21)], also known as ‘An Act to provide for the Care and Education of Infants who may be convicted of Felony or Misdemeanour’, allowed judges and magistrates to make custody orders, and send children into the care of other adults, when sentencing children convicted of crimes. It did not provide for a different system of Courts as in the later Children’s Court: in this era, children were tried in adult courts, under the same laws. This Act was repealed by Infant Convicts Adoption Act 1901.