Youth Justice Act 2005

The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

The Regulations may provide for any of the following matters:

the construction (including provision for the storage and preparation of food), cleanliness, sanitation, lighting, heating, ventilation and safety of detention centres;

the maintenance of detention centres in a proper state of repair;

the number of youths who may be received in a detention centre, having regard to the available facilities (including medical facilities and other amenities), space and staff of the centre;

the operation and management of detention centres;

the suitability of persons operating detention centres and of the staff of such centres, and fixing the numbers of such staff;

the maintenance of order within a detention centre, including the conduct of searches and the manner of dealing with the misconduct of detainees and any grievances or complaints of detainees;

the health, welfare, safe custody and protection of detainees;

community work orders, including:

prescribing the duties of persons who are subject to community work orders; and

regulating the conduct of persons who are subject to community work orders; and

providing for the health and safety of persons who are subject to community work orders; and

providing for travel and transport arrangements to be made for persons who are subject to community work orders; and

prescribing what effect an injury to, or the illness of, a person who is subject to a community work order has on the order; and

prescribing the periods to be taken into account when calculating the hours during which work has been carried out under a community work order; and

prescribing the powers and duties of advisory committees and regulating the holding of their meetings and the procedures they are to observe at those meetings;

alternative detention orders, including regulating the conduct of youths who are subject to the orders;

the criteria for persons to be included in the register of support persons under section 14 and procedures in relation to the maintenance of the register;

procedures for, and other matters in relation to, pre‑sentencing conferences under section 84;

penalties not exceeding 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months for offences against the Regulations;

community youth justice officers, including:

prescribing the duties of the officers; and

providing for the health and safety of the officers.

The Regulations may authorise the CEO or a superintendent of a detention centre to make a determination in relation to:

the management and operation of a detention centre; or

the maintaining of order within a detention centre; or

a grievance or complaint of a detainee; or

the health, welfare, safe custody and protection of a detainee.