Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 272

272 Ordinary visitor

(1) This section does not apply to any of the following persons—

(a) a community visitor (child);

(b) a child advocacy officer;

(c) a member of the UN subcommittee;

(d) a person who is accompanying the UN subcommittee as a UN expert, interpreter or other person assisting the subcommittee;

(e) the inspector of detention services.

(2) The chief executive may approve the entry of visitors to a detention centre either generally or in a particular case.

(3) The chief executive may refuse entry to a detention centre to a person if—

(a) in the chief executive’s opinion, the person’s presence in the detention centre would prejudice the security or good order of the detention centre; or

(b) the person does not, on request, give the person’s name, address or proof of identity; or

(c) the person refuses to comply with a request made under subsection (5) .

(4) Subject to section 276 , the chief executive may require a visit to a detention centre to take place in the presence, or under the supervision, of a member of the staff of the detention centre.

(5) The chief executive may, on reasonable grounds, ask a visitor to a detention centre—

(a) to submit to an external physical search by a member of the staff of the detention centre; or

(b) to submit anything in the visitor’s possession to a search by a member of the staff of the detention centre.

(6) The chief executive may give a visitor who has entered a detention centre a direction it considers necessary for the security or good order of the centre.

(7) If a visitor refuses to submit to a search requested under subsection (5) or fails to comply with a direction under subsection (6) , the chief executive may ask the visitor to leave the centre immediately.

(8) A police officer or a member of the staff of a detention centre may, using force that is reasonable and necessary, remove from the centre a visitor who refuses to leave the centre immediately when requested to leave.