Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Savings and Transitional) Regulation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Children (Detention Centres) Amendment

(Savings and Transitional) Regulation 2018

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.

DAVID ELLIOTT, MP Minister for Corrections

Explanatory note

The Parole Legislation Amendment Act 2017, among other things, amended the Children (Detention
Centres) Act 1987 to make specific provision for the parole of juvenile offenders, which apply to offenders

who were under 18 years when they committed an offence and when they first become eligible for parole and cease to apply once offenders reach 18 years (unless that age is reached during the last 12 weeks of the parole period).

The object of this Regulation is to amend the Children (Detention Centres) Regulation 2015 to provide that references in existing parole orders (made before the amendments to the Children (Detention Centres) Act

1987) to community corrections officers or supervision by community corrections officers include

references to juvenile justice officers or supervision by juvenile justice officers. general regulation-making power) and clause 1A of Schedule 1.

Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Savings and Transitional) Regulation 2018 [NSW]

Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Savings and

Transitional) Regulation 2018

under the

Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Children (Detention Centres) Amendment (Savings and
Transitional) Regulation 2018.

2      Commencement

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

3 Amendment of Children (Detention Centres) Regulation 2015

Insert after clause 155:

156      Construction of references in certain existing parole orders relating to juvenile offenders

(1)  In an existing parole order for a juvenile offender to whom Part 4C of
the Act applies:

(a)	a reference to a community corrections officer includes a reference to a juvenile justice officer, and
(b)	a reference to supervision by a community corrections officer includes a reference to supervision by a juvenile justice officer.

(2)	In this clause:
existing parole order means a parole order for a juvenile offender to
whom Part 4C of the Act applies that was:
(a) made under the provisions of the Crimes (Administration of

Sentences) Act 1999, as applied by section 29 of the Act before

its repeal by the Parole Legislation Amendment Act 2017, and

(b) in force immediately before the commencement of Part 4C of the Act.