Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 276E

276E Application of Corrective Services Act 2006

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a person is delivered into the custody of the chief executive (corrective services) under section 276A (5) (a) ; or

(b) a person is detained in a corrective services facility under section 276B ; or

(c) a person is transferred to a corrective services facility under section 276C .

(2) For holding the person at a corrective services facility—

(a) the person is taken to be a prisoner under the Corrective Services Act 2006 ; and

(b) any rights, liberties or immunities of the person as a detainee under this Act are not preserved, transferred or otherwise applicable for the person as a prisoner; and

(c) if the person is serving a period of detention, or liable to serve a period of detention—

(i) the person is liable to serve a term of imprisonment equal to the period of detention the person remains liable to serve when the person is delivered under section 276A , detained under section 276B or transferred under section 276C ; and

(ii) the day the person would otherwise have been released under section 227 , for the period of detention, is the day the person is to be released on parole under the Corrective Services Act 2006 .

(3) However, the release of the person under subsection (2) (c) (ii) is subject to the Corrective Services Act 2006 as if granted under a court ordered parole order (the
"statutory parole order" ) and the provisions of that Act applying to parole orders also apply to the statutory parole order.