Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 144

    (1)     The director-general may exclude from a youth detention policy or operating procedure notified or available for inspection in accordance with section 143 any matter that the director-general believes on reasonable grounds would be likely to disclose—

        (a)     information that may endanger public safety or security or good order at a detention place; or

        (b)     anything prescribed by regulation.

    (2)     If subsection (1) applies to a youth detention policy or operating procedure—

        (a)     the policy or procedure must contain a statement about the effect of this section; and

        (b)     the excluded matter must be available for inspection, on request, by any of the following:

              (i)     a judge;

              (ii)     a magistrate;

              (iii)     a member of the Legislative Assembly;

              (iv)     the custodial inspector;

              (v)     a commissioner exercising functions under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005

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              (vi)     the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner;

              (vii)     the ombudsman;

              (viii)     an official visitor;

              (ix)     the integrity commissioner;

              (x)     anyone to whom this section applies because of a declaration under subsection (3).

    (3)     The Minister may declare that this section applies to a stated person.

    (4)     A declaration is a notifiable instrument.

Note     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act

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