Bail Amendment (Juvenile Justice) Regulation 2014 (NSW)

New South Wales

Bail Amendment (Juvenile Justice)

Regulation 2014

under the

Bail Act 2013

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following

Regulation under the Bail Act 2013.

BRAD HAZZARD, MP

Attorney General

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to permit a centre manager or assistant manager of a children’s detention centre and certain other Juvenile Justice officers to exercise the following functions of a bail authority under the Bail Act 2013:

(a)	giving an accused person a bail acknowledgment or any other notice required to be given by the bail authority,
(b)	accepting a signed bail acknowledgment from the accused person,
(c)	accepting a character acknowledgment,
(d)	entering into a bail security agreement,
(e)	accepting money or security deposited under a bail condition,
(f)	accepting any notice that demonstrates compliance with an accommodation requirement.

This Regulation is made under the Bail Act 2013, including sections 95 (2) (f) and 98 (the general regulation-making power).

Bail Amendment (Juvenile Justice) Regulation 2014

under the

Bail Act 2013

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Bail Amendment (Juvenile Justice) Regulation 2014.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of Bail Regulation 2014

Clause 43

Insert after clause 42:

43      Appropriate officers—juvenile justice

For the purposes of section 95 (2) (f) of the Act, each of the following persons is prescribed as an appropriate officer:

(a)	a centre manager (within the meaning of the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987) or an assistant manager of a detention centre (within the meaning of that Act),
(b)	any member of staff of the Department of Police and Justice who is employed in the Juvenile Justice Branch of that Department and is a justice of the peace (within the meaning of the Justices of the Peace Act 2002).