Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Records of every
finding by the court that a young person is guilty of an offence are to be
made available by the chief executive officer to any court and to any person
requiring the information for the purposes of performing a function under this
Act or under the Court Security and Custodial Services Act 1999 in relation
to the young person, and to any person who is authorised to exercise a
Schedule power as defined in that Act in relation to the young person or who
does any high-level security work as defined in that Act in relation to the
young person.
(2) The court may
order that the chief executive officer make available to any person applying
to the court for them, records of every conviction of a young person of an
offence if the court considers it appropriate to make them available.
(3) Upon being
requested to do so by a person whom the chief executive officer considers to
have a proper interest in the matter, the chief executive officer is to
—
(a)
inform the person whether a particular young person is detained under this
Act, giving particulars of any order under which the young person is detained;
and
(b)
provide the person with other information, where applicable, as to the way in
which —
(i)
an alleged offender is being, or has been, dealt with by
a juvenile justice team; or
(ii)
terms specified by a juvenile justice team in dealing
with an alleged offender are being, or have been, complied with; or
(iii)
effect is being, or has been, given to an order that has
been made under this Act by the court dealing with a person for an offence.
[Section 15 amended: No. 47 of 1999 s. 41.]