Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 553

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     an intensive therapy order is in force for a child or young person; and

        (b)     the person has been given a copy of the order; and

        (c)     the person is not the child or young person who is the subject of the intensive therapy order; and

        (d)     the person engages in conduct that contravenes a provision of the order.

Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.

    (2)     This section does not apply if the person has a reasonable excuse for contravening the order.

Note     The defendant has an evidential burden in relation to the matters mentioned in s (2) (see Criminal Code

, s 58).