Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 250

    (1)     This section applies if a transgender or intersex young detainee is to be searched under this chapter.

    (2)     For a young detainee who fails to make a choice under section 189 (2) (a) (Transgender and intersex young detainees—sexual identity)—

        (a)     if the young detainee requires that a male conduct the search, the young detainee is taken, for this chapter, to be male; and

        (b)     if the young detainee requires that a female conduct the search, the young detainee is taken, for this chapter, to be female.

Note 1     For the criminal matters chapters, the sex of a young detainee is taken to be the young detainee's sex entered in the register under s 189 (7) (Transgender and intersex young detainees—sexual identity).

Note 2     For the meaning of transgender person and "intersex person", see the Legislation Act

, s 169A and s 169B.