Youth Justice Act 2005
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217 Regulations (1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters: (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) The Regulations may provide for any of the following matters: (a) the construction (including provision for the storage and preparation of food), cleanliness, sanitation, lighting, heating, ventilation and safety of detention centres;
Youth Justice Act 2005 130 (b) the maintenance of detention centres in a proper state of repair; (c) the number of youths who may be received in a detention centre, having regard to the available facilities (including medical facilities and other amenities), space and staff of the centre; (d) the operation and management of detention centres; (e) the suitability of persons operating detention centres and of the staff of such centres, and fixing the numbers of such staff; (f) the maintenance of order within a detention centre, including the conduct of searches and the manner of dealing with the misconduct of detainees and any grievances or complaints of detainees; (g) the health, welfare, safe custody and protection of detainees; (h) community work orders, including: (i) prescribing the duties of persons who are subject to community work orders; and (ii) regulating the conduct of persons who are subject to community work orders; and (iii) providing for the health and safety of persons who are subject to community work orders; and (iv) providing for travel and transport arrangements to be made for persons who are subject to community work orders; and (v) prescribing what effect an injury to, or the illness of, a person who is subject to a community work order has on (vi) prescribing the periods to be taken into account when calculating the hours during which work has been carried out under a community work order; and (vii) prescribing the powers and duties of advisory committees and regulating the holding of their meetings and the procedures they are to observe at those meetings; (i) alternative detention orders, including regulating the conduct of youths who are subject to the orders;