Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 266

266 Authority for admission to detention centre

(1) The chief executive must not—

(a) admit a child to a detention centre; or

(b) detain a child in a detention centre;

unless the chief executive is given a document mentioned in subsection (2) .

(2) The documents are—

(a) a warrant authorising the detention of the child; or

(b) if the child has been refused bail by a police officer in relation to a charge of an offence—a copy of the bench charge sheet for the offence; or

(c) a court verdict and judgment records containing the name of the child and particulars of the judgment pronounced on the child; or

(d) a document in the prescribed form that contains the relevant details of an existing document mentioned in paragraph (c) ; or

(e) a document prescribed by regulation.