Section 81

The Minister may provide or appoint such places of detention as may be required for the purposes of this Act.

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

A child or young person while so detained and while being conveyed to and from the place of detention is deemed to be in lawful custody, and if he or she escapes may be apprehended without warrant and brought back to the place of detention in which he or she was detained.

When any person is, under the provisions of this Act, committed by an order or judgment of a court to a place of detention, the order or judgment is not invalidated by any subsequent proof that the person is not a child or young person; but in that case it is lawful for the court before which such proof is brought to order the production of the person before it for inquiry and, if it thinks fit, to revoke the order of committal; and the order is thereupon cancelled.[55