Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 276

276 Protection of lawyer representing child

(1) A lawyer representing a child held in a detention centre is entitled to access to the child at all reasonable times.

(2) A detention centre employee—

(a) must allow the lawyer to conduct an interview with the child out of the hearing of any other person; and

(b) must not open, copy, remove or read any correspondence—

(i) from the child to the lawyer; or

(ii) from the lawyer to the child.

(3) Subsection (2) (b) does not prevent a detention centre employee from handling the correspondence to the extent necessary to give the child access to it or, at the child’s request, to store it in a secure place.