Part 1Detention and supervision of persons posing very high risk of imminent serious sexual or violent offending
Status of residents
24Transfers between residences
A resident may be transferred, on the direction of the chief executive given after considering the advice of the manager of the residence and any other advice the chief executive considers appropriate, from a residence to any other residence for 1 or more of the following reasons:
- to ensure the safety of the resident or of other persons who are in, or who visit, the residence:
- where the residence in which the resident lived has been destroyed or has become uninhabitable:
- where the risk posed by the resident has lessened, to allow the resident to live in a residence with fewer restrictions:
- to place the resident in a residence closer to his or her family:
- to respond to the needs of that resident, as identified in the management plan:
- to facilitate medical or psychiatric care for the resident:
- to reduce the risk of self-harm by the resident if he or she is identified as being at risk:
- to reduce the risk to the resident if he or she is identified as being vulnerable to mistreatment by other residents:
- to grant a request by a resident for a transfer.
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- 2004 No 50 s 54