Youth Justice Act 1997
85Court may order detention period to be cumulative
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85 Court may order detention period to be cumulative
(1) [Section 85 Subsection (1) amended by No. 23 of 2016, s. 6, Applied:23 Aug 2016] If, at the time the Court makes a detention order against a youth for an offence, the youth is serving or has been sentenced to serve a period of detention for another offence, the Court may order the period of detention under the detention order to take effect on the earliest release date or next release date in respect of that other period of detention.
(2) Subsection (1) applies even if the other period of detention has to be served concurrently or cumulatively with a period of detention for an offence other than the one for which the Court makes the detention order.