Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 301K

301K Extension or further extension of declaration

(1) This section applies if the chief executive is satisfied that a detention centre the subject of a temporary detention centre declaration continues to be adversely affected.

(2) The chief executive may, with the approval of the Minister and by signed writing, extend, or further extend, the period of the temporary detention centre declaration by up to 7 days.

(3) The total period of the declaration and any extension or further extension must not be more than 21 days.

(4) The chief executive must publish an extension or further extension under subsection (2) on the department’s website as soon as practicable after it is made.

(5) However, if the extension or further extension can not, for technical or other reasons, be conveniently published on the department’s website, it must be published—

(a) in another way decided by the chief executive; and

(b) on the department’s website as soon as practicable.

(6) The extension or further extension takes effect when it is first published—

(a) on the department’s website under subsection (4) ; or

(b) in another way decided by the chief executive under subsection (5) (a) .