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Youth Justice Act 1997
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125 Where youth is to be detained
(1) The Secretary must determine the detention centre at which –
(a) a youth sentenced to a period of detention; or
(b) a youth remanded in custody while awaiting the determination of proceedings in relation to an offence; or
(c) a person in the process of being transferred to another State –
is to be detained.
(2) The Secretary may cause a detainee to be transferred from a detention centre to another detention centre.