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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 532 What is a therapeutic protection order?

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 532

What is a therapeutic protection order?

In this Act:

"therapeutic protection order", for a child or young person, means an order that—

        (a)     directs that the child or young person be confined—

              (i)     for a period of time (the period of confinement ) starting on a stated day (the start day ); and

              (ii)     at a therapeutic protection place; and

              (iii)     for implementation of a stated therapeutic protection plan; and

        (b)     transfers daily care responsibility for the child or young person to the director-general for the period of confinement; and

Note     Pt 15.3 (Director-general has daily care responsibility) does not apply if daily care responsibility for a child or young person is transferred to the director-general under a therapeutic protection order (see  s 506).

        (c)     includes any conditions the Childrens Court considers necessary to prevent the child or young person from engaging in harmful conduct.

Note     The director-general or a police officer may apply to a magistrate for a safe custody warrant if a therapeutic protection order or interim therapeutic protection order is in force for a child or young person and the director-general or police officer believes on reasonable grounds that—

        (a)     someone has contravened the order and, because of the contravention, the child or young person is in danger; or

        (b)     the child or young person is absent without lawful authority or excuse from the therapeutic protection place where the child or young person has been directed to be confined under the therapeutic protection order (see  s 685).