Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 279

279 Offences relating to detention centres

(1) A person must not—

(a) without lawful authority enter or attempt to enter a detention centre; or

(b) remain in or in the vicinity of a detention centre after having been directed to leave by—

(i) the chief executive; or

(ii) a police officer; or

(c) in contravention of a direction from the chief executive, communicate or attempt to communicate with a person detained at the detention centre; or

(d) without lawful authority—

(i) convey or deliver, or allow another person to convey or deliver, to a person detained in the centre any liquor, drugs, money, letter, document or other article; or

(ii) convey, or allow another person to convey, from the detention centre any liquor, drugs, money, letter, document, clothing or other article; or

(iii) leave, or allow to be left, at the centre any liquor, drugs, money, letter, document, clothing or other article with the intention that it come into the possession of a person detained in the centre.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty (subject to part 7 )—40 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

(2) A police officer may arrest without warrant any person found committing an offence against subsection (1) .