Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 214

214 Limitation on cumulative orders

(1) A court making more than 1 detention order under section 175 against a child on the same day or in the same proceedings is not to direct that a detention order be served cumulatively with another of the detention orders if the total period of the detention orders would exceed—

(a) when made by a Childrens Court magistrate—1 year; or

(b) when made by another court—7 years.

(1A) Subsection (1B) applies if a court constituted by a Childrens Court magistrate—

(a) makes 1 or more detention orders under section 175 and 1 or more detention orders under section 175A against a child on the same day or in the same proceedings; or

(b) makes 1 or more detention orders under section 175A against a child on the same day or in the same proceedings.

(1B) The court is not to direct that a detention order be served cumulatively with another of the detention orders if the total period of the detention orders would exceed 3 years.

(2) To the extent that the total exceeds the maximum allowed the orders are of no effect.