Australian Capital Territory

Remand Centres Declaration 2003 (No. 1) 

Notifiable Instrument NI2003-424

made under the
 
Remand Centres Act 1976 s 5(3)
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The Administrator has informed me that under section 5(1) of the Remand Centres Act 1976 (ACT) (the Act):

a)	the number of detainees in the Belconnen Remand Centre declared by instrument, published pursuant to section 4 of the Act, in the Gazette No. S169 of 
27 September 1976 is likely to be greater than the number that can be held conveniently in the Centre; and

b)	it is not appropriate to transfer some detainees to another institution within or outside the Territory.

Therefore, under section 5(3) of the Act, I declare the area of land on which the detention cells of the Symonston Temporary Remand Centre of the Australian Capital Territory are located, to be a temporary remand centre for the period of 12 months commencing on the day after notification. 

Jon Stanhope 
Attorney General
18 October 2003