Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Except where the child remains the prisoner of the court, a court that remands a child in custody must remand the child into the custody of the chief executive despite the provisions of any other Act to the contrary.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who is an adult being dealt with for an offence committed by the person as a child if, under section 136, 137 or 138, the person must be held in a corrective services facility.
(3) Jurisdiction conferred by an Act on a court--
(a) to commit a person to a place of detention (other than a detention centre) pending appearance before a court; and
(b) to give directions to the person in charge of the place;
is taken, if the person is a child and subsection (1) applies, instead to confer jurisdiction on the court to remand the child into the custody of the chief executive and to give directions to the chief executive.
(4) A court that remands a child into the custody of the chief executive must order the commissioner of the police service to deliver the child as soon as practicable into the custody of the chief executive.
(5) A child held by the commissioner of the police service under an order made under subsection (4) is--
(a) before being delivered to the chief executive--in the custody of the commissioner of the police service; and
(b) after being delivered to the chief executive--in the custody of the chief executive.
(6) Subject to subsection (7), the chief executive may keep a child mentioned in subsection (4) who is in the chief executive's custody in places that the chief executive determines from time to time.
(7) The chief executive can not determine under subsection (6) that a child is to be kept in a prison.