Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 693

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     a child or young person has been taken into safe custody and is subject to a safe custody placement; and

        (b)     the person removes the child or young person from a place; and

        (c)     the removal is in contravention of the safe custody placement; and

        (d)     the person knows the removal is in contravention of the safe custody placement.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.

    (2)     Strict liability applies to subsection (1) (a).

    (3)     In this section:

"safe custody placement", for a child or young person, means the placement of the child under section 692 (Safe custody warrant—placement of child or young person).