BACK PREVIOUS SECTION NEXT SECTION BACK PREVIOUS SECTION NEXT SECTION | 30. (1) In this section, "adult" means an adult as defined in the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act or in the Young Offenders Act (Canada). | ||
| (2) A young person in custody must be detained in a youth custody centre that the minister specifies. | ||
| (3) The minister may, during the period of custody, transfer the young person from one centre to another. | ||
| (4) If a young person in custody becomes an adult, the minister may transfer the person to a correctional centre to serve his or her custody order or any balance of it. | ||
| (5) The minister may permit a young person in custody |
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to be temporarily released from custody for medical, compassionate or humanitarian reasons, or |
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to participate in any educational, treatment or counselling program inside or outside the youth custody centre. | |
| (6) If a young person is absent from a youth custody centre as permitted under subsection (5), the young person is subject to |
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the rules, regulations and discipline of the centre, and |
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any terms for his or her supervision that a person in authority at the centre imposes on the young person for the period of the absence. | |
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