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CORRECTIONAL SERVICES ACT 2014 (NO 26 OF 2014) - SECT 66

Use of custodial correctional facility to accommodate youth detainee

    (1)     If the Commissioner agrees to a request made under section 154 of the Youth Justice Act for a youth detainee to be accommodated at a custodial correctional facility , the youth detainee is to be accommodated at the facility .

    (2)     A youth who is accommodated under this section:

    (a)     is not a youth prisoner; and

    (b)     is a youth detainee.

Note for section 66

Section 154 of the Youth Justice Act provides that that Act continues to apply in relation to the youth as if the custodial correctional facility were a youth detention centre. It also requires that the youth be kept separate from prisoners of the custodial correctional facility.



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