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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 294 Reporting and investigation procedures

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 294

Reporting and investigation procedures

    (1)     The director-general must make reporting and investigation procedures, consistent with this Act, about the making, recording and investigation of allegation reports.

    (2)     Each reporting and investigation procedure is a notifiable instrument.

Note 1     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act

.

Note 2     The amendment or repeal of a reporting and investigation procedure is also a notifiable instrument. See the Legislation Act

, s 46 (Power to make instrument includes power to amend or repeal).

    (3)     Without limiting subsection (1), the reporting and investigation procedures must—

        (a)     require allegation reports to be made in writing and given to an administrator; and

        (b)     require the administrator to whom an allegation report is given, and any investigator who investigates the alleged behaviour breach, to be a different person to the youth detention officer who makes the allegation report; and

        (c)     require a young detainee to be told about an alleged behaviour breach in language and a way the detainee can understand; and

        (d)     allow a young detainee to contact 1 or 2 support people for assistance in responding to an alleged behaviour breach; and

        (e)     require a young detainee to be told that they have the right to contact 1 or 2 support people for assistance in responding to an alleged behaviour breach.