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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 180 Health care

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 180

Health care

    (1)     The director-general must ensure that—

        (a)     young detainees have a standard of health care equivalent to that available to other people in the ACT; and

        (b)     arrangements are made to ensure the provision of appropriate health services for young detainees; and

        (c)     conditions in detention promote the health and wellbeing of young detainees; and

        (d)     as far as practicable, young detainees are not exposed to risks of infection.

Note     The director-general may direct that a young detainee be transferred to a health facility (see s 109).

    (2)     In particular, the director-general must ensure that young detainees have access to—

        (a)     regular health checks; and

        (b)     timely treatment where necessary, particularly in urgent circumstances; and

        (c)     hospital care where necessary; and

        (d)     as far as practicable—

              (i)     specialist health services from health practitioners; and

              (ii)     necessary health care programs, including rehabilitation programs.

Note     The director-general may also ask for a health report about a young detainee (see s 186).

    (3)     For chapter 8, subsections (1) and (2) are taken to provide an entitlement for each young detainee in relation to health care.

    (4)     A regulation may make provision in relation to health services for young detainees, including provision about the following:

        (a)     the provision of health service clinics for young detainees;

        (b)     appointments for young detainees with health practitioners;

        (c)     rehabilitation for young detainees who suffer personal injury arising out of or in the course of their detention;

        (d)     security arrangements for young detainees visiting health practitioners or health facilities, particularly outside detention places.

    (5)     For chapter 8, a young detainee's entitlement in relation to health care includes anything expressed to be an entitlement in a regulation made for subsection (4).