Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 271

271 Chief executive may authorise treatment

Despite any other Act or law, the chief executive is authorised to give consent to any medical treatment of a child in the chief executive’s custody if—

(a) the medical treatment requires the consent of a guardian of the child; and

(b) the chief executive is unable to ascertain the whereabouts of a guardian of the child despite reasonable inquiries; and

(c) it would be detrimental to the child’s health to delay the medical treatment until the guardian’s consent can be obtained.