Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 211

    (1)     The director-general must review a safe room segregation direction—

        (a)     after it has been in effect for 2 hours; and

        (b)     at the end of every subsequent 2 hour period for which it is in effect.

    (2)     When reviewing a direction under subsection (1) (b), the director-general must—

        (a)     seek the advice of a health practitioner (other than a non-treating health practitioner) about the action the director-general should take under subsection (4); and

        (b)     have regard to that advice in deciding what action to take.

    (3)     The director-general may also review a safe room segregation direction at any other time, on the director-general's own initiative or on request by the young detainee.

    (4)     After reviewing a safe room segregation direction under subsection (1) or (3), the director-general must do 1 of the following:

        (a)     confirm the direction;

        (b)     make a further safe room segregation direction if the grounds for making the direction exist;

        (c)     revoke the direction under section 209 (4);

        (d)     make a direction under section 109 that the young detainee be transferred to a health facility.

    (5)     To remove any doubt, the director-general may make more than 1 further safe room segregation direction after a review.