Community youth justice officers
140AA Community youth justice officers
The CEO may appoint a public sector employee to be a community youth justice officer.
A community youth justice officer:
has the following functions:
to prepare reports for the Court as required;
to supervise a youth who is the subject of supervision under a non-custodial order;
to monitor the compliance of a youth who is the subject of a monitoring order with the conditions of the order;
other duties as directed by a court or the CEO;
any other functions conferred by this or any other Act; and
has the powers necessary to perform those functions and any other powers conferred by this or any other Act.
The CEO may exercise the powers and perform the functions of a community youth justice officer conferred by this or any other Act.
In this section:
non-custodial order means any of the following:
a monitoring order;
a community work order;
any other order made under this Act or the Sentencing Act 1995
that requires a youth to be supervised.
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