Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 532

In this Act:

"intensive therapy order", for a child or young person, means an order of the Childrens Court that—

        (a)     directs the child or young person to undergo either or both of the following:

              (i)     assessment of the child's or young person's behaviour and needs;

              (ii)     treatment in accordance with a therapy plan; and

        (b)     may authorise the director-general to issue a direction (a  confinement direction ) that the child or young person be confined from time to time while the order is in force as the director-general considers reasonably necessary as a last resort for the purpose of the assessment or treatment; and

        (c)     if the order authorises the issue of a confinement direction—transfers daily care responsibility for the child or young person to the director-general for any period of confinement; and

Note     Pt 15.3 (Director-general has daily care responsibility) does not apply if daily care responsibility for a child or young person is transferred to the director-general under an intensive therapy order (see  s 506).

        (d)     includes any other conditions the court considers necessary to—

              (i)     prevent the child or young person from engaging in harmful conduct; and

              (ii)     ensure the child or young person undergoes any necessary treatment in accordance with a therapy plan.

Note 1     The director-general or a police officer may apply to a magistrate for a safe custody warrant if an intensive therapy order or interim intensive therapy order is in force for a child or young person and the director-general or police officer believes on reasonable grounds that—

        (a)     someone has contravened the order and, because of the contravention, the child or young person is in danger; or

        (b)     the child or young person is absent without lawful authority or excuse from the intensive therapy place where the child or young person has been directed to be confined under the intensive therapy order (see  s 685).

Note 2     Parental responsibility may be transferred to someone else (see s 17) or shared between 2 or more people (see s 18) under a court order made under this Act or another law in force in the Territory.