Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 193

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     an adult who works or provides services at a detention place (whether paid or unpaid) suspects on reasonable grounds that a young detainee or anyone else at the detention place—

              (i)     poses a significant threat to security or good order at the detention place; or

              (ii)     has something concealed on them that is a prohibited thing or that may be used by the young detainee in a way that may involve a risk to the personal safety of anyone at the detention place; and

        (b)     the person's reasons for the suspicion arise from information obtained by the person during the course of, or because of, the person's work or providing of services at the detention place.

Examples—people working or providing services at detention place

1     a youth detention officer

2     a health practitioner

3     a community-based youth worker

4     a teacher

    (2)     The person must, as soon as practicable after forming the suspicion, report to the director-general—

        (a)     the name or description of the young detainee; and

        (b)     the reasons for the person's suspicion.