Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 43

43 Service of complaint and summons if offender a child

(1) A complaint and summons requiring a child to appear before a court to answer a complaint of an offence must be served on the child a reasonable time before the child is required to appear before the court.

(2) The complaint is also to be served on—

(a) a parent of the child, unless a parent can not be found after reasonable inquiry; and

(b) the chief executive.

(3) A person serving a complaint and summons on a child must do so—

(a) as discreetly as practicable; and

(b) not at or in the vicinity of the child’s place of employment or school, unless there is no other place where service may be reasonably effected.

(4) Subject to the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 , sections 382 (3) and 388 , this section does not apply to a notice to appear.

(5) In this section—

"parent" , of a child, includes someone who is apparently a parent of the child.