Transfer of youth prisoner to youth detention centre
64 Transfer of youth prisoner to youth detention centre
This section applies if the Commissioner considers that:
(a) it would be in the best interests of a youth prisoner to serve all or part of the youth's remaining prisoner period at a youth detention centre instead of a custodial correctional facility; and
(b) the facilities at the youth detention centre are adequate and appropriate for the care and custody of the youth.
(2) The Commissioner may, with the consent of the superintendent of the youth detention centre, transfer the youth to the youth detention centre.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, while the youth is in a youth detention centre, the youth:
is not a youth prisoner; and
is a youth detainee.
(4) While the youth is a youth detainee under subsection (3)(b), the youth is taken to be a detainee under a sentence of detention, and the Youth Justice Act 2005 applies accordingly.
In this section:
remaining prisoner period, for a youth, means the remainder of the period for which the youth would, but for this section, remain a prisoner.
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