Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 209

209 Court’s reasons for detention order to be stated and recorded

(1) A court that makes a detention order against a child must—

(a) state its reasons in court; and

(b) cause the reasons to be reduced to writing and kept by the proper officer of the court with the documents relating to the proceeding.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) , a court’s failure to comply with subsection (1) does not affect the sentence order.

(3) A court considering the sentence order on appeal or review must take into account a failure to comply with subsection (1) (a) and give the failure the weight it considers appropriate.