CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 178 Contact with accredited people
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 178
Contact with accredited people(1) The director-general must ensure that a young detainee has adequate opportunities for contact with an accredited person, whether by telephone or mail or by a visit by an accredited person.
Note Accredited person —see s 137.
(2) For chapter 8, subsection (1) is taken to provide an entitlement for each young detainee in relation to contact with an accredited person.
(3) However, the director-general may give directions denying or limiting a young detainee's contact with an accredited person if the director-general suspects on reasonable grounds that the contact may—
(a) undermine security or good order at a detention place; or
(b) circumvent any process for investigating complaints or reviewing decisions under this Act.
(4) Also, this section is subject to division 6.6.5 (Access to detention places).