Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025

Queensland Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025

Queensland Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 Contents Page Part 1 Preliminary 1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Part 2 Amendment of Youth Justice Act 1992 3 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 Amendment of s 52AA (Court may impose monitoring device condition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5 Omission of s 405 (Effectiveness of monitoring device condition after geographical area stops being prescribed or section 52AA expires) 6 6 Insertion of new pt 11, div 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Division 27 Transitional provision for Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Act 2025 443 Application of s 52AA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Part 3 Amendment of Youth Justice Regulation 2016 7 Regulation amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8 Omission of pt 2A (Geographical areas for monitoring device condition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 9 Omission of sch 1AA (Geographical area for child to live in) . . . 7

2025 A Bill for An Act to amend the Youth Justice Act 1992 and the Youth Justice Regulation 2016 for particular purposes

[s 1] Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 Part 1 Preliminary Page 4 Authorised by the Parliamentary Counsel The Parliament of Queensland enacts— Part 1 Preliminary 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Act 2025. 2 Commencement This Act commences on 30 April 2026. Part 2 Amendment of Youth Justice Act 1992 3 Act amended This part amends the Youth Justice Act 1992. 4 Amendment of s 52AA (Court may impose monitoring device condition) (1) Section 52AA(1)— omit, insert— (1) A court may, under section 52A(2), impose on a grant of bail to a child a condition that the child must wear a monitoring device while released on bail (a monitoring device condition) if the court is satisfied, in addition to being satisfied of the matters mentioned in that section, that imposing the monitoring device condition is appropriate having regard to— 1 2 Clause 3 4 5 Clause 6 7 8 9 Clause 10 11 Clause 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

[s 4] Youth Justice (Electronic Monitoring) Amendment Bill 2025 Part 2 Amendment of Youth Justice Act 1992 Page 5 Authorised by the Parliamentary Counsel (a) the suitability assessment report given to the court under subsection (4); and (b) any other matter the court considers relevant. Note— See the Human Rights Act 2019, sections 19, 22, and 25 to 28. (1A) However, a court may only impose on a grant of bail to a child a monitoring device condition if the chief executive advises the court that all of the following services are available in the area in which the child lives— (a) services necessary to support the effective operation of a monitoring device; (b) services suitable to support the child’s compliance with the condition; (c) services suitable to support the monitoring of the child. (2) Section 52AA(3), from ‘having regard’ to ‘subsection (1)(f)’— omit. (3) Section 52AA(5)— omit, insert— (5) A regulation may prescribe the matters the chief executive must consider in assessing the child’s suitability for a monitoring device condition. (4) Section 52AA(10)— omit. (5) Section 52AA(11), definition prescribed indictable offence— omit. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30