Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 282

282 Detainees trust fund to be kept

(1) The chief executive must keep a detainees trust fund.

(2) All amounts received by the chief executive, or anyone else under an arrangement with the chief executive, for a detainee must be paid into the detainees trust fund.

(3) Amounts in the detainees trust fund to the credit of a detainee—

(a) may be spent by the detainee, with the chief executive’s consent; and

(b) must be paid by the chief executive to the public trustee, if the public trustee is managing the detainee’s estate and the public trustee requests the payment; and

(c) must be paid by the chief executive to the detainee on being discharged or being released on parole or under a supervised release order under this Act; and

(d) must be paid by the chief executive to the chief executive (corrective services) if the detainee is transferred from the chief executive’s custody to the custody of the chief executive (corrective services).

(4) In this section—

"detainee" means a person in the custody of the chief executive under this Act.