Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The care and protection chapters stop applying to a child or young person when the child or young person becomes an adult.
(2) Any order or agreement under the care and protection chapters applying to the child or young person stops applying to the child or young person when the child or young person becomes an adult.
(3) A young person confined at an intensive therapy place under an intensive therapy order must be released immediately the young person becomes an adult.
(4) However, this section does not require the release of a person who has been—
(a) convicted of an offence and, for the conviction, is detained under an order or other decision of a court, including a court of a State; or
(b) charged with an offence and is detained in relation to the charge.
(5) This section does not apply to part
15.5 (Transition from out-of-home care).