Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 185

    (1)     The director-general must keep a register containing details of each young detainee at a detention place.

    (2)     The register must include the following details in relation to each young detainee:

        (a)     the young detainee's full name, including any assumed name;

        (b)     the young detainee's age and date of birth;

        (c)     the young detainee's sex;

Note     For transgender and intersex young detainees, see s 189.

        (d)     the authority for the detention of the young detainee;

        (e)     the period of authorised detention;

        (f)     for a young detainee under a sentence of imprisonment—details of the sentence, including any combination sentence;

        (g)     the current place of detention;

        (h)     the security classification for the young detainee;

              (i)     the case management plan (if any) for the young detainee;

        (j)     details of any known condition of the young detainee that requires, or is likely to require, a health service;

        (k)     details of anything taken from the young detainee under section 158 (Identification of young detainees);

        (l)     details of property the young detainee has at the detention place;

        (m)     for a young detainee who is under 18 years old—details of people who have daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the young detainee and details of notifications under this Act of those people;

        (n)     for a young detainee who is 18 years old or older—details of a person nominated by the young detainee (the nominated person ) to whom the director-general can give any notifications required under—

              (i)     section 113 (Transfer—notifying people responsible for or nominated by young detainees); or

              (ii)     section 157 (Detention—notifying people responsible for or nominated by young detainees); or

              (iii)     section 182 (Injury etc—notifying people responsible for or nominated by young detainees); or

              (iv)     section 207 (2) (c) (Notice of segregation directions—safe room and other); or

              (v)     section 237 (5) (c) (Alcohol and drug testing of young detainees); or

              (vi)     section 251 (Notice of strip and body searches—person responsible for or nominated by young detainee);

        (o)     for a young detainee who is 18 years old or older—details of any notifications given to the young detainee's nominated person;

        (p)     anything else the director-general considers necessary or appropriate for the proper management of the young detainee.

Examples—other things director-general may consider necessary or appropriate

1     young detainee's nutritional or health needs

2     young detainee's need for spectacles, contact lens, crutches, prosthesis or other artificial aids

3     young detainee's language or literacy difficulties

4     any cultural background or religious affiliation identified by the young detainee