Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 228

228 Chief executive’s supervised release order

(1) At the end of the period after which a child is required to be released under section 227 , the chief executive must make an order (a
"supervised release order" ) releasing the child from detention.

(2) However, the chief executive is not required to make a supervised release order if the custody period mentioned in section 227 (4) is equal to or more than the period of detention the child was sentenced to serve.

Examples—

1 C is sentenced to 10 weeks detention. C spent 10 weeks on remand before sentence. The chief executive is not required to make a supervised release order.

2 C is sentenced to 10 weeks detention. C spent 8 weeks on remand before sentence. The chief executive must make a supervised release order for the remaining 2 weeks.

(3) The chief executive may—

(a) impose conditions that the chief executive considers appropriate on the supervised release order; and

(b) amend a condition of the supervised release order at any time by written notice served on the child.

(4) The supervised release order must require that, during the period of the order—

(a) the child abstain from violation of the law; and

(b) the child satisfactorily attend programs as directed by the chief executive; and

(c) the child comply with every reasonable direction of the chief executive; and

(d) the child report and receive visits as directed by the chief executive; and

(e) the child or a parent of the child notify the chief executive within 2 business days of any change of address, employment or school; and

(f) the child not leave, or stay out of, Queensland without the prior approval of the chief executive.

(5) A supervised release order may contain a requirement that the child must comply with outside the State.

Example—

An order may require the child to attend a particular educational establishment that is located outside the State.

(6) A supervised release order must not require, or be subject to a condition, that the child must wear a monitoring device.