Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 550

    (1)     If the Childrens Court authorises the director-general to issue a confinement direction in relation to a child or young person under an intensive therapy order, or an extension of the order, the court must state the following in the order:

        (a)     that the child or young person may be confined as a last resort while the order is in force;

Note     For the director-general's functions in relation to a confinement direction (see section 577).

        (b)     the place of confinement;

        (c)     the purpose of the confinement;

        (d)     any further conditions of the authorisation.

    (2)     In this section:

"confinement direction"–see section 532, definition of "intensive therapy order", paragraph (b).