Youth Justice Act 1997
120Effect of cancellation of supervised release order
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120 Effect of cancellation of supervised release order
(1) [Section 120 Subsection (1) amended by No. 23 of 2016, s. 11, Applied:23 Aug 2016] If a supervised release order is cancelled, the Court must issue a warrant directing the Secretary, a police officer or another person to take into custody the youth who is or was subject to the order and return the youth –
(a) [Section 120 Subsection (1) amended by No. 23 of 2016, s. 11, Applied:23 Aug 2016] if the youth is less than 19 years of age when the order is cancelled, to the custody of the Secretary at the detention centre from which he or she was released under the order; or
(b) [Section 120 Subsection (1) amended by No. 23 of 2016, s. 11, Applied:23 Aug 2016] if the youth is 19 years of age or more when the order is cancelled, to the custody of the Director of Corrective Services at the prison specified in the warrant.
(2) [Section 120 Subsection (2) amended by No. 23 of 2016, s. 11, Applied:23 Aug 2016] A supervised release order has no effect after it is cancelled.
(3) Subject to subsection (4) , the period commencing when a youth was released under a supervised release order and ending when the youth is returned to custody under a warrant issued under subsection (1) is counted as time that the youth served in custody under any detention order.
(4) If a supervised release order is cancelled because the youth commits another offence, including a prescribed offence, the time between the commission of that other offence and the return of the youth to custody under a warrant issued under subsection (1) is not counted as time that the youth served in custody under a detention order.
(5) [Section 120 Subsection (5) omitted by No. 23 of 2016, s. 11, Applied:23 Aug 2016] . . . . . . . .
(6) Cancellation of a supervised release order does not prevent another supervised release order from being made subsequently.