Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PERIODIC DETENTION ACT 1995 (NO. 3 OF 1995) - SECT 15

15. (1) The Director may, by order, direct a detainee—

        (a)     to participate in any activity, attend any class or group or undergo any instruction that the Director considers conducive to the detainee's welfare or training;

        (b)     to perform, between such hours as are specified in the order, any work in a detention centre specified in the order that the Director considers suitable to the detainee's physical capacity; or

        (c)     to report to an officer specified in the order at a specified place other than a detention centre and to perform work that the Director considers suitable to the detainee's physical capacity;

during any detention period.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (c), the Director may direct a detainee to perform work at—

        (a)     a hospital or a charitable or educational institution;

        (b)     the home of an elderly person, an infirm person or a person with a disability;

        (c)     an institution for the elderly, the infirm or persons with disabilities; or

        (d)     any place of which the Territory or a Territory authority is the owner or occupier or which is administered by the Territory or the Territory authority.

(3) The Director shall not direct a detainee to perform any work referred to in subsection (2) if, in performing the work, the detainee would take the place of any person who would otherwise be employed on that work as a regular employee.

(4) Where the Director makes an order under paragraph (1) (c) and for any reason work is not available at the place specified in that order or it is impracticable for the detainee to perform work at that place, the detainee shall report at such other place nominated, and in accordance with such instructions as may be given to him or her, by an officer specified in the order.