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Youth Justice Act 1997
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123 Establishment or abolition of detention centre
By notice published in the Gazette, the Minister may establish or abolish detention centres, or declare premises to be or not be detention centres, for the detention of –
(a) youths sentenced to a period of detention; and
(b) youths remanded in custody while awaiting the determination of proceedings for an offence; and
(c) persons in the process of being transferred to another State under this Act.