Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) The Director may grant a detainee leave of absence from a period of detention –
(a) for health reasons; or
(b) on compassionate grounds; or
(c) for any other reason the Director considers sufficient.
(2) Leave of absence may be granted either before or after the detention period to which it relates.
(3) If the Director refuses to grant leave of absence to a detainee in relation to one or more detention periods, the detainee may apply to the Youth Justice Court and the Court may, if it considers it appropriate, direct that leave of absence be granted in respect of all or any of those detention periods.
(4) An application under subsection (3) must be made within 21 days after the refusal.
(5) If the Court directs that leave of absence be granted, the Director is taken to have granted leave of absence for each detention period specified by the Court.
(6) A detainee who is granted leave of absence from a period of detention –
(a) is not taken to be serving that period of detention for the purposes of his or her sentence; and
(b) must continue to report under the periodic detention order until the specified number of detention periods have been served.