Children and Young People Act 2008
185Register of young detainees
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185 Register of young detainees (1) The director-general must keep a register containing details of each young detainee at a detention place. (2) The register must include the following details in relation to each young detainee: (a) the young detainee’s full name, including any assumed name; (b) the young detainee’s age and date of birth; (c) the young detainee’s sex; Note For transgender and intersex young detainees, see s 189. (d) the authority for the detention of the young detainee; (e) the period of authorised detention; (f) for a young detainee under a sentence of imprisonment—details of the sentence, including any combination sentence; (g) the current place of detention; (h) the security classification for the young detainee; (i) the case management plan (if any) for the young detainee; (j) details of any known condition of the young detainee that requires, or is likely to require, a health service;
(k) details of anything taken from the young detainee under section 158 (Identification of young detainees); (l) details of property the young detainee has at the detention place; (m) for a young detainee who is under 18 years old—details of people who have daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the young detainee and details of notifications under this Act of those people; (n) for a young detainee who is 18 years old or older—details of a person nominated by the young detainee (the nominated person) to whom the director-general can give any notifications required under— (i) section 113 (Transfer—notifying people responsible for or nominated by young detainees); or (ii) section 157 (Detention—notifying people responsible for or nominated by young detainees); or (iii) section 182 (Injury etc—notifying people responsible for or nominated by young detainees); or (iv) section 207 (2) (c) (Notice of segregation directions—safe room and other); or (v) section 237 (5) (c) (Alcohol and drug testing of young detainees); or (vi) section 251 (Notice of strip and body searches—person responsible for or nominated by young detainee); (o) for a young detainee who is 18 years old or older—details of any notifications given to the young detainee’s nominated person;
(p) anything else the director-general considers necessary or appropriate for the proper management of the young detainee. Examples—other things director-general may consider necessary or appropriate 1 young detainee’s nutritional or health needs 2 young detainee’s need for spectacles, contact lens, crutches, prosthesis or other artificial aids 3 young detainee’s language or literacy difficulties 4 any cultural background or religious affiliation identified by the young