Victorian Current Acts

CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 476

    (1)     If—

        (a)     a person is serving a sentence of detention in a youth justice centre; and

        (b)     before the end of that sentence of detention he or she is sentenced to a period of detention in a youth residential centre to be served cumulatively on the sentence of detention in a youth justice centre—

service of the period of detention in a youth residential centre is suspended until that person has served the sentence of detention in a youth justice centre.

S. 476(2) amended by No. 61/2014 s. 121(1).

    (2)     The Youth Parole Board may before the person is released from a youth justice centre, whether under a parole order made by the Youth Parole Board in respect of the sentence of detention in a youth justice centre or otherwise, direct that at the end of the sentence of detention in a youth justice centre, the person must serve the whole of the period of detention in a youth residential centre (if it was to be served cumulatively on the sentence of detention in a youth justice centre) or the unexpired portion (if any) of it (if it was to be served concurrently with the sentence of detention in a youth justice centre) as detention in a youth justice centre.

S. 476(3) amended by No. 61/2014 s. 121(2).

    (3)     If under subsection (2) the period of detention in a youth residential centre is to be served as detention in a youth justice centre, the Youth Parole Board may at any time release the person on parole.

    (4)     This section does not apply to or in relation to a person who is sentenced to a period of detention in a youth residential centre while that person is released from a youth justice centre on parole.