Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 363

363 Application of amendments about transfer direction for a child who will turn 17 years

(1) This section applies to a child who—

(a) is subject to a detention order made after the commencement; or

(b) at the commencement—

(i) is serving a period of detention; and

(ii) during the period of detention, will turn 17 years; and

(iii) on the transfer day, will have 6 months or more to be served in detention.

(2) Subject to subsection (2A) , this Act applies to the child even if 1 or both of the following happened before the commencement—

(a) the commission of the offence for which the child is subject to a detention order or is serving a period of detention;

(b) the start of the proceeding for the offence.

(2A) A requirement under section 276C (1) to give a prison transfer direction within 28 days after the child is sentenced to serve a period of detention is taken to be a requirement to give a prison transfer direction before, or as soon as practicable after, the commencement of this subsection.

(3) In this section—

"transfer day" see section 276B .