Children (Detention Centres) Act 1998 Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Youth Justice Conferences) Regulation 1998 (1998-218) [GG No 71 of 24.4.1998, p 2846] (NSW)

1998 No 218

New South Wales

Children (Detention Centres)

Amendment (Youth Justice

Conferences) Regulation 1998

under the

Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987.

Faye Lo Po´
Minister for Community Services

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Children (Detention Centres) Regulation 1995 to enable convenors of youth justice conferences under the Young Offenders Act 1997 to order the attendance of children in custody at such conferences and to authorise superintendents of detention centres to comply with such orders.

This Regulation is made under the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987, including section 42 and section 45 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 71 of 24 April 1998, page 2846 Page 1

1998 No 218

Clause 1 Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Youth Justice Conferences) Regulation 1998

Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Youth

Justice Conferences) Regulation 1998

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Children (Detention Centres) Amendment

(Youth Justice Conferences) Regulation 1998.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 24th April 1998.

3 Amendment of Children (Detention Centres) Regulation 1995

The Children (Detention Centres) Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

4 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 3)

Clause 56A

Insert after clause 56:

56A Attendance at youth justice conferences

For the purposes of the definition of appropriate person or body in section 42 (5) of the Act, a conference convenor, acting with the written authority of a conference administrator, under the Young Offenders Act 1997 is prescribed.