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Schedule 1, amendments 1.21 to 1.25, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, amendment 1.26.
MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Minister for Health, Minister for Children and Young People, Minister for Disability and Community Services, Minister for Women) (6.18): I move amendment No 45 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 2547].
This is a technical amendment and fixes a problem in the formatting of the clause.
Amendment agreed to.
Schedule 1, amendment 1.26, as amended, agreed to.
Schedule 1, amendments 1.27 and 1.28, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, amendment 1.29.
MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Minister for Health, Minister for Children and Young People, Minister for Disability and Community Services, Minister for Women) (6.19): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 46 to 50 circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MS GALLAGHER: I move amendments Nos 46 to 50 circulated in my name together [see schedule 2 at page 2547].
Amendment No 46 clarifies that proposed new section 320C will apply in relation to young offenders as well as young remandees. A young remandee is a remandee aged under 21 years who is on remand in relation to an offence allegedly committed when they were under the age of 18 years.
Amendment No 47 clarifies that proposed new section 320D will apply in relation to young offenders as well as young remandees and is similar to the previous amendment. Amendment No 48 creates a new section 320DA in the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act which will provide that a person who is aged under 21 years and who is denied bail in relation to an offence they allegedly committed when they were under 18 years of age is to be detained in a youth detention centre.
Amendment No 49 is technical in nature and changes the heading of proposed new section 320E of the Crimes (Sentence Administration) Act to read “Young offenders—administration of sentences other than imprisonment”. Amendment No 50 clarifies that an agreement under proposed new section 320E must be made in respect of any sentence imposed on a young offender other than a sentence of imprisonment.
MR STEFANIAK (Ginninderra) (6.21): We will be supporting the amendments. I do flag one thing that the opposition is concerned about, and it relates to young
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