280Seizing mail etc

280 Seizing mail etc (1) The director-general may seize anything in a young detainee’s protected mail if the director-general believes on reasonable grounds that the thing— (a) may physically harm the addressee or anyone else; or (b) is a prohibited thing. (2) The director-general may seize other mail of a young detainee, or anything in the mail, if the director-general suspects on reasonable grounds that the seizure is necessary— (a) to stop any of the following entering or leaving a detention place: (i) a prohibited thing; (ii) anything that may be used by the young detainee in a way that may involve an offence, a behaviour breach, a risk to the personal safety of someone else or a risk to security or good order at a detention place; or (b) to stop correspondence that is threatening, or not in the best interests of the young detainee, from entering or leaving a detention place; or

(c) to stop a young detainee obtaining or buying goods without the director-general’s approval. Example—correspondence not in best interests of young detainee— par (b) mail addressed to a young person by someone convicted of a sexual offence against a child (3) The director-general may seize a document under this section only if document is not privileged. (4) If the director-general believes on reasonable grounds that a document seized under subsection (3) is privileged, the director-general must return the document to the detainee immediately. mail means postal mail. protected mail means mail between a young detainee and any of the (d) the director of public prosecutions; (f) the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young (g) the information privacy commissioner; (h) the ombudsman; (i) the integrity commissioner;

(j) a person prescribed by regulation.