CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 159 Information—entitlements and obligations
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 159
Information—entitlements and obligations(1) As soon as practicable after a young detainee is admitted to a detention place, the director-general must take reasonable steps to explain the following to the young detainee:
(a) the young detainee's entitlements and obligations under this Act;
(b) the case management plan arrangements;
(c) the role of official visitors;
(d) the procedures for seeking information and making complaints to official visitors;
(e) which areas of the detention place are prohibited areas;
Note Prohibited areas are declared under s 147.
(f) if the young detainee is a national of a foreign country—that the young detainee may ask the director-general to tell a diplomatic or consular representative of the country about the detention;
(g) anything else the director-general considers necessary or desirable.
Examples—par (g)
1 youth detention policies and operating procedures relevant to the young detainee
2 the scope and effect of the director-general's directions
(2) The explanation under subsection (1)—
(a) may be in general terms; and
(b) as far as practicable, must be in language the young detainee can readily understand.
(3) The director-general must arrange for the assistance of an interpreter in complying with subsection (1) or (2) if the director-general believes on reasonable grounds that the young detainee is unable, because of inadequate knowledge of the English language or a disability, to communicate with reasonable fluency in English.
(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the assistance of the interpreter may be provided by telephone.
(5) The director-general must tell a diplomatic or consular representative of a foreign country about the detention of a national of that country, if asked by the young detainee or if the director-general, after making reasonable inquiries, considers it in the best interests of the young detainee to do so.