New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (DETENTION CENTRES) ACT 1987 - SECT 10

10 Transfer of juvenile inmates from correctional centres to detention centres

(1) The Minister administering the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 may, by order in writing made with the consent of the Minister administering this Act, direct the transfer of a juvenile inmate from a correctional centre to a detention centre.

(2) The Commissioner of Corrective Services may, by order in writing made with the consent of the Director-General, direct the transfer of a juvenile inmate from a juvenile correctional centre to a detention centre.

(3) An order may not be made under subsection (2) in respect of a juvenile inmate unless he or she is an inmate pursuant to an order under section 28 whereby he or she has been transferred from a detention centre to a juvenile correctional centre.

(4) When an inmate is transferred from a correctional centre to a detention centre pursuant to an order under this section:

(a) he or she ceases to be an inmate and becomes a person on remand or a person subject to control, as the case requires, and

(b) in the case of a person who becomes a person subject to control, the unexpired portion of the sentence or sentences of imprisonment to which he or she was subject when the order was made is taken to be the period for which he or she is required, under this Act, to be detained in a detention centre.