CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 153 Inspections by judicial officers and Assembly members
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 153
Inspections by judicial officers and Assembly members(1) This section applies to each of the following:
(a) a judge;
(b) a magistrate;
(c) a member of the Legislative Assembly.
Note 1 The inspector of correctional services may also enter and inspect a detention place (see Inspector of Correctional Services Act 2017
, s 19).
Note 2 Official visitors must visit detention places (see pt 2.3 and Official Visitor Act 2012
).
(2) A person mentioned in subsection (1) may, at any reasonable time, enter and inspect—
(a) a detention place; or
(b) a place outside a detention place where a detainee is, or has been, directed to work or participate in an activity.
Example—time that would not be reasonable
a time when an emergency declaration is in force