Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

PERIODIC DETENTION ACT 1995 (NO. 3 OF 1995) - SECT 49

49. (1) Where a manager believes on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to do so—

        (a)     to maintain the good order, discipline or security of a detention centre; or

        (b)     for the welfare or discipline of a detainee;

he or she may—

        (c)     arrange for the detainee to be confined to sleeping quarters; or

        (d)     direct the detainee to leave the centre, or other place at which the detainee has been directed to work, and inform the detainee that the detention period that was being served by the detainee is to be taken to be terminated and that the detainee's sentence is to be extended by a further detention period.

(2) Where a detainee has been directed to leave a detention centre, or other place, under paragraph (1) (d), the relevant detention period shall be taken to be terminated and the detainee's sentence is extended by a further detention period.