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Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Youth justice - Supervision with residence orders

315: Supervision with residence order to cease to run if young person absconds

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"If you run away from care, the time away doesn't count towards your care time."

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If you are a young person with a supervision with residence order, and you run away from the chief executive's custody, the time you are away does not count as part of the time you are supposed to be in their care. This is according to an order made under section 311(1). When you are unlawfully at large, this time is not included in the period you are in the custody of the chief executive.

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Supervision with residence orders

315Supervision with residence order to cease to run if young person absconds

  1. Where a young person who is subject to an order made under section 311(1) absconds from the custody of the chief executive, any time during which that young person is unlawfully at large shall not count as part of the period during which that young person is in the custody of the chief executive pursuant to that order.

Notes
  • Section 315: amended, on , by section 13 of the Department of Child, Youth and Family Services Act 1999 (1999 No 82).