Young Offenders Act 1994

The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may be made —

amending Schedule 1 or Schedule 2;

prescribing the gratuities that may be credited to detainees and the conditions upon which they may be credited;

specifying and regulating the privileges which may be extended to detainees and providing for the withdrawal of such privileges;

conferring authority to require a detainee to submit for the purpose of having a body sample taken or to wear, when required by this Act to do so, a device for the purpose of having a body sample taken or detecting the presence of a substance in the body of the detainee;

conferring authority on a superintendent to order that a detainee be confined to the detainee’s sleeping quarters, or to a designated room, for a period not exceeding 24 hours in order to maintain good government, good order or security in a detention centre.

Without limiting this section, regulations may be made for the management, control, and security of detention centres generally or a specified detention centre and for the management, control, and security of detainees —

conferring authority on a superintendent to search a detainee and take from him or her any thing found on his or her person —

which apparently was not issued to the detainee with the approval of the superintendent; or

which has been retained by the detainee without the approval of the superintendent; or

which, although issued or retained with the approval of the superintendent, appears to the superintendent to constitute a threat to or breach of the security or good order of the detention centre,

providing for items seized and retained following a search to be returned, confiscated or destroyed under particular circumstances; and

conferring authority on a superintendent —

to search a person entering or seeking to enter a detention centre, including a child; and

to search a person or vehicle outside but near a detention centre, where in the opinion of the superintendent that search is necessary for the purpose of the security or good order of the detention centre; and

to search a person leaving or having just left a detention centre, including a child; and

to examine any article or vehicle in the possession or under the control of that person;

conferring authority on a superintendent to use a trained dog to assist in carrying out a prescribed search; and

limiting the liability for injury or damage caused by the use of a trained dog when under the control of an authorised person in carrying out a search, and when the search was carried out in prescribed circumstances.