Victorian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

Children and Young Persons Act 1989 - SECT 218

Meetings of the Youth Parole Board

218. Meetings of the Youth Parole Board



(1) The Youth Parole Board must meet at the times and places that are fixed by
the regulations or, if no times or places are so fixed, at the times and
places that are determined by the chairperson.

(2) The chairperson or, in the chairperson's absence, the acting chairperson,
must preside at every meeting of the Youth Parole Board.

(3) Subject to sub-sections (4) and (5), a quorum of the Youth Parole Board
consists of the chairperson and one other member.

(4) A female member of the Youth Parole Board must be present at any meeting
of the Board at which consideration is being given to the release on parole of
a female person.

(5) A quorum at any meeting of the Youth Parole Board at which consideration
is being given to the transfer to a prison of a person detained in a
youth training centre consists of the chairperson and two other persons.

(6) The following questions which may arise at a meeting of the
Youth Parole Board are to be determined by the person presiding at the meeting
alone-

   (a)  whether a question is a question of law;

   (b)  any question determined to be a question of law.

(7) A question (other than a question referred to in sub-section (6)) arising
at a meeting of the Youth Parole Board must be determined by a majority of
votes and, if the votes are equal, the person presiding has a casting vote.

(8) Subject to this Act and the regulations, the Board may regulate its own
procedure.