CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 230 Taking prohibited things etc into detention place
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 230
Taking prohibited things etc into detention place(1) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) takes a prohibited thing into a detention place; or
(b) gives a prohibited thing to a young detainee; or
(c) removes a prohibited thing from a detention place.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units, imprisonment for 1 year or both.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any action approved by the director-general.
(3) In this section:
"give" includes send.
"prohibited thing "includes something the person intends a detainee to use for making a prohibited thing or use otherwise in relation to a prohibited thing.