Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A court that makes a detention order against a child must--
(a) state its reasons in court; and
(b) cause the reasons to be reduced to writing and kept by the proper officer of the court with the documents relating to the proceeding.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a court's failure to comply with subsection (1) does not affect the sentence order.
(3) A court considering the sentence order on appeal or review must take into account a failure to comply with subsection (1)(a) and give the failure the weight it considers appropriate.