Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 142

    (1)     The Minister may declare a place to be a detention place.

    (2)     A declaration is a notifiable instrument.

Example—declaration

the declaration of a place, including a buffer zone surrounding a secure perimeter, to be a detention place

Note 1     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act

.

Note 2     The power to make an instrument includes power to make different provisions in relation to different matters or different classes of matters, and provisions that apply differently by reference to stated exceptions or factors (see Legislation Act

, s 48.)

    (3)     For the Smoke-Free Public Places Act 2003

, a detention place is a public place.