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YOUNG OFFENDERS ACT 1994 - SECT 170

170 .         Detention offences

                A detainee who —

            (a)         disobeys a rule of the detention centre or an order of a person having authority to give the order; or

            (b)         uses insulting or threatening language or behaves in an insulting or threatening manner; or

            (c)         prefers a false or frivolous complaint; or

            (d)         does any act or omission of insubordination or misconduct subversive of the order and good government of the detention centre; or

            (e)         breaches a condition or restriction of any leave of absence from a detention centre; or

            (f)         assaults a person; or

            (g)         escapes or prepares or attempts to escape from lawful custody; or

            (h)         is in possession of or under the influence of drugs not lawfully issued to the detainee or not taken as prescribed; or

                  (i)         is, without the permission of the superintendent, in possession of glue containing toluene or another intoxicant; or

            (j)         does not submit for the purpose of having a body sample taken when required under this Act to do so; or

            (ja)         refuses or fails to wear when required under this Act to do so a device for the purpose of having a body sample taken or detecting the presence of a substance in the body of the detainee; or

            (k)         is in possession of a weapon or a facsimile of a weapon; or

            (l)         wilfully breaks, damages or destroys property; or

            (m)         behaves in a disorderly or riotous manner,

                commits a detention offence.

        [Section 170 amended: No. 58 of 2004 s. 38.]



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