Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 (NO. 19 OF 2008) - SECT 138

Functions under the criminal matters chapters in relation to a young detainee must be exercised as follows:

        (a)     to respect and protect the young detainee's human rights;

        (b)     to ensure the young detainee's decent, humane and just treatment;

        (c)     to preclude torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;

        (d)     to ensure the young detainee is not subject to further punishment (in addition to deprivation of liberty) only because of the conditions of detention;

        (e)     to ensure the young detainee's conditions in detention comply with section 141 (Detention places—minimum living conditions);

        (f)     to promote, as far as practicable, the young detainee's reintegration into society;

        (g)     for a young detainee who is a young offender—to promote, as far as practicable, the young detainee's rehabilitation.