Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) A preventive detention order can not be applied for, or made, for a person who is under 16 years of age.
(2) If--
(a) a person is being detained under a preventative detention order or a purported preventative detention order; and
(b) the police officer who is detaining the person is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the person is under 16 years of age;
the police officer must release the person, as soon as practicable, from detention under the order or purported order.