Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) Without limiting section 143 (Youth detention policies and operating procedures), the director-general must make a youth detention policy or operating procedure providing for different treatment of convicted young detainees and non-convicted young detainees.
Example
a youth detention policy or operating procedure, in accordance with the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of Liberty , for non-convicted young detainees to:
• be provided, if possible, with opportunities to pursue work with remuneration and to continue education and training (r 18)
• receive and retain materials for their leisure and recreation that are compatible with the interests of the administration of justice (r 18)
(2) For chapter 8, a young detainee's entitlement in relation to treatment in detention includes anything expressed to be an entitlement in a youth detention policy or operating procedure made for subsection (1).
(3) In this section:
"convicted young detainee" means a young detainee whose detention is because of the young detainee's conviction for an offence.