Section 80

Despite anything to the contrary in any other written law, a court on remanding a child or young person who is not released on bail, instead of remanding him or her in custody in a prison, is to remand him or her in custody in a remand home named in the order of remand for the period for which he or she is remanded or until he or she is from that place delivered in due course of law.

Despite anything to the contrary in any other written law, a court committing for trial a child or young person who is not released on bail, instead of committing him or her to prison, is to commit him or her to a remand home, to be remanded there for the period for which he or she is committed or until he or she is delivered from that place in due course of law.

Where an order made by the Youth Court in respect of a child or young person under section 49(1) has been contravened, the Youth Court may, even though the person is above the age of 16 years (but below the age of 19 years) at the time of the contravention, order that the person be remanded in a remand home pending any further order by the Court on how he or she is to be dealt with.

Despite subsection (1), any person while being subject to the jurisdiction of the Youth Court who has attained the age of 16 years but is below the age of 19 years may be remanded at a remand home.

Despite subsections (1) and (2), in the case of a young person it is not obligatory on the court to remand him or her in or commit him or her to a remand home under those subsections if the court certifies that it is impracticable to do so, or that he or she is of so unruly a character that he or she cannot be safely so remanded or committed, and in that case the court may remand the young person to custody in, or may commit him or her to, a prison.

An order of remand or committal under this section may be varied or, in the case of a young person who proves to be of so unruly a character that he or she cannot be safely remanded in a remand home, revoked by any court; and if it is revoked the young person may be remanded in custody in, or committed to, a prison.

The order or judgment pursuant to which a child or young person is committed to custody in a remand home must be delivered with the child or young person to the person‑in‑charge of the remand home and is sufficient authority for his or her remand in that place in accordance with the tenor thereof.

A child or young person while so remanded, and while being conveyed to and from the remand home, is deemed to be in lawful custody, and if he or she escapes may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the remand home in which he or she was remanded.[54