Youth Justice Act 2024
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766 Regulations
(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to the following—
(a) prescribing forms and particulars in relation to commencing a proceeding against a child who it is presumed cannot commit an offence;
(b) prescribing any matter relating to the review of a charge against a child who it is presumed cannot commit an offence;
(c) generally prescribing any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to the following—
(a) prescribing regions of the State for the purposes of Part 5.2 and Division 4 of Part 7.8;
(b) the appointment, powers, duties and functions of persons responsible for programs engaged with under youth justice custodial orders, youth parole orders and supervised community-based orders;
(c) the conduct, management and supervision of programs engaged with under youth justice supervised bail, youth justice custodial orders, youth parole orders and supervised community-based orders;
(d) the appointment, powers, duties and functions of youth justice custodial officers and youth justice community workers;
(e) the care, supervision and management of persons in youth justice custodial centres, and youth justice community service centres or otherwise in the legal custody of the Secretary or the Commissioner for Youth Justice;
(f) the conduct, management, supervision, safety, stability and security of youth justice custodial centres, youth justice community service centres and any other institutions or places established under this Act or under the control of the Secretary or the Commissioner for Youth Justice;
(g) the entitlements of persons held in custody in youth justice custodial centres or of children held in custody in police gaols and other places and the responsibility of the Secretary, the Commissioner for Youth Justice, the Chief Commissioner of Police or any other person with respect to those entitlements;
(h) the earnings of a person held in custody in a youth justice custodial centre;
(i) the management, security and good order of police gaols and other places in which children are held in custody;
(j) particulars and other matters in relation to the use of force, searches and seizures;
(k) supervision, observation and other matters in relation to the use of isolation;
(l) visits to youth justice custodial centres and searches of visitors;
(m) all matters necessary for the management, supervision, safety, stability, security and health of children in respect of whom a supervised community-based order is in force;