CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004
Table of Provisions
PART 1 -- Preliminary
- 1 Short title
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Terms used
- 4 Presumptions of parentage
- 5 Status of notes
PART 2 -- Objects and principles
Division 1 -- Objects
Division 2 -- General principles relating to children
- 7 Best interests of child are paramount consideration
- 8 Determining best interests of child
- 9 Principles to be observed
- 10 Principle of child participation
Division 3 -- Principles relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
- 11 Relationship with principles in Division 2
- 12 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child placement principle
- 13 Principle of self-determination
- 14 Principle of community participation
PART 3 -- Administrative matters
Division 1 -- The Minister
- 15 Agreements in respect of social services
- 16 Delegation by Minister
Division 2 -- The Children and Community Services Ministerial Body
- 17 Term used: Ministerial Body
- 18 Children and Community Services Ministerial Body
- 19 Purpose and nature of Ministerial Body
- 20 Execution of documents by Ministerial Body
Division 3 -- The CEO
- 21 Functions of CEO
- 22 Cooperation and assistance
- 23 CEO etc. may disclose or request relevant information
- 24A Power of CEO to obtain copies of certain reports from CEO (Corrective Services)
- 24 Delegation by CEO
Division 4 -- Authorised officers
- 25 Designation of authorised officers
- 26 Identity cards
Division 5 -- Advisory bodies
- 27 Establishment of advisory bodies
Division 6 -- Information sharing
- 28A Terms used
- 28B Disclosure of information by prescribed authority or authorised entity
- 28C Delegation of powers under s. 28B
PART 4 -- Protection and care of children
Division 1 -- Introductory matters
- 28 When child in need of protection
- 29 Provisional protection and care, meaning and effect of
- 30 When child is in CEO’s care
Division 2 -- Measures to safeguard or promote child’s wellbeing
Subdivision 1 -- General powers and duties of CEO
- 31 CEO may cause inquiries to be made about child
- 32 CEO’s duties if action needed to safeguard etc. child’s wellbeing
- 33A CEO may cause inquiries to be made before child is born
- 33B CEO’s duties if action needed before child born to safeguard etc. child after birth
Subdivision 2 -- Powers relating to investigation
- 33 Access to child for purposes of investigation
- 34 Warrant (access), application for and issue of
Subdivision 3 -- Provisional protection and care
- 35 Warrant (provisional protection and care), application for and issue of
- 36 CEO’s duty if child taken into provisional protection and care under warrant
- 37 Taking child into provisional protection and care without warrant in certain circumstances
- 38 CEO’s duties etc. if child taken into provisional protection and care without warrant
- 39 Provisional care plans, preparation etc. of
Subdivision 4 -- Other powers
- 40 Power to keep child under 6 years of age in hospital
- 41 Power to move child to safe place
Division 3 -- Protection orders
Subdivision 1 -- Introductory matters
- 42 Terms used
- 43 Term used: protection order
Subdivision 2 -- Applications for, and making of, protection orders
- 44 Application for protection order
- 45 Court may make protection order
- 46 No order principle
Subdivision 3 -- Protection orders (supervision)
- 47 Protection order (supervision)
- 48 Duration of protection order (supervision)
- 49 Extension of protection order (supervision)
- 50 Conditions of protection order (supervision)
- 51 Variation of conditions of protection order (supervision)
- 52 Access to child by authorised officer while protection order (supervision) in force
- 53 Provision of social services
Subdivision 4 -- Protection orders (time-limited)
- 54 Protection order (time-limited)
- 55 Duration of protection order (time-limited)
- 56 Extension of protection order (time-limited)
Subdivision 5 -- Protection orders (until 18)
- 57 Protection order (until 18)
- 58 Restriction on making protection order (until 18)
- 59 Duration of protection order (until 18)
Subdivision 6 -- Protection orders (special guardianship)
- 60 Protection order (special guardianship)
- 61 Restriction on making protection order (special guardianship)
- 62 Duration of protection order (special guardianship)
- 63 Conditions of protection order (special guardianship)
- 64 Variation of conditions
- 65 Court may order payments to special guardian
- 66 Provision of social services
Subdivision 7 -- Revocation and replacement of protection orders
- 67 Revocation of protection order
- 68 Replacement of protection order: application by CEO
- 69A Replacement of protection order (time-limited) or protection order (until 18): application by carer
Subdivision 8 -- General
- 69 Applications for extension, variation, revocation or replacement of protection orders
- 70 Form of protection order
- 71 Child’s date of birth
- 72 Parties to proceedings to be given copy of protection order
- 73 Maintenance of children under certain orders
Division 4 -- Negotiated placement
- 74 Term used: child
- 75 Negotiated placement agreement
- 76 Duration of negotiated placement agreement
- 77 Termination of negotiated placement agreement
Division 5 -- Children in the CEO’s care
Subdivision 1 -- Charter of Rights
- 78 Preparation etc. of Charter of Rights
Subdivision 2 -- Placement arrangements
- 79 CEO may arrange placement of child
- 80 Guidelines for placement of certain children
- 81 Consultation before placement of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child
- 82 Payment for care under placement arrangement
- 83 Inspection of place where child living
- 84 Authorised officer may require person to hand over child
- 85 Warrant (apprehension) where child not handed over
- 86 Warrant (apprehension) where child absent or taken without authority
- 87 Apprehension without warrant in certain circumstances
Subdivision 3A -- Secure care arrangements
- 88A Terms used
- 88B Secure care facilities
- 88C Secure care arrangements for certain children
- 88D Period in secure care facility
- 88E Continuation order required for certain provisionally protected children
- 88F CEO to decide secure care period for protected child
- 88G Reconsideration of certain decisions as to protected child
- 88H Review of CEO’s decision
- 88I Requirements for care plan or provisional care plan
- 88J Apprehension without warrant of child absent from secure care facility
Subdivision 3 -- Care plans
- 88 Term used: parent
- 89 Care plans, preparation etc. of
- 90 Review of care plan
Subdivision 4 -- Review of certain decisions
- 91 Terms used
- 92 Care plan review panel
- 93 Initial review
- 94 Review of CEO’s decision
- 95 Procedure
Division 6 -- Provisions about leaving the CEO’s care
- 96 People who qualify for assistance
- 97 Child’s entitlement to personal material
- 98 Provision of social services
- 99 Provision of assistance to obtain accommodation etc.
- 100 Provision of financial assistance
Division 7 -- Offences
Subdivision 1 -- Children generally
- 101 Failing to protect child from harm
- 102 Leaving child unsupervised in vehicle
- 103 Tattooing or branding
- 104A Body piercing
- 104 Providing long-term care for young children
Subdivision 2 -- Children under placement arrangements or secure care arrangements
- 105 Terms used
- 106 Removing child from State
- 107 Removing child from place of residence
- 108 Harbouring child absent from place of residence
- 109 Preventing child’s return to place of residence
- 110 CEO may prohibit communication with child
- 111 Evidentiary provision
Division 8 -- Powers of restraint, search and seizure
- 112 Terms used
- 113A Approving persons for purposes of this Division
- 113 Prerequisites for exercise of power
- 114 Child may be restrained
- 115 Child may be searched
- 116 Certain articles may be seized
- 117 How seized articles to be dealt with
- 118 Use of reasonable force
- 119 Prescribed procedures
Division 9 -- Warrants
- 120 Applying for warrants
- 121 Warrant (access), effect of
- 122 Warrant (apprehension), effect of
- 123 Warrant (provisional protection and care), effect of
- 124 Execution of warrant
Division 9A -- Reporting sexual abuse of children
- 124A Terms used
- 124B Duty of certain people to report sexual abuse of children
- 124C Reports under s. 124B, form and content of
- 124D CEO to give copies of reports under s. 124B to police
- 124E Time limit for prosecuting offences under s. 124B and 124C
- 124F Confidentiality of reporter’s identity
- 124G Evidence and legal proceedings
- 124H Orders, leave of courts etc. under s. 124F or 124G
Division 10 -- General
- 125A Assessors, appointment and functions of
- 125B Identity cards for assessors
- 125 Access to child, meaning of
- 126 Recovery of certain expenditure
- 127 CEO may give consent in lieu of parent in some cases
- 128 Records of children in CEO’s care to be kept
- 129 Protection from liability for giving information
- 130 General powers of police officers not affected
PART 5A -- Responsible parenting agreements
- 131A Terms used
- 131B Principle to be observed in administration of this Part
- 131C Responsible parenting agreements
- 131D Entering into responsible parenting agreement
- 131E Content of responsible parenting agreement
- 131F Formal requirements
- 131G Effect of responsible parenting agreement
- 131H Delegation by CEO (Corrective Services) and CEO (Education)
PART 5 -- Protection proceedings
Division 1 -- Terms used in this Part
Division 2 -- Adjournment and interim orders
- 132 Adjournment of proceedings
- 133 Interim orders
- 134A Interim orders (secure care)
- 134 Variation or revocation of interim order
- 135 Access to child by authorised officer while interim order in force
Division 3A -- Orders for determination of parentage
- 136A Terms used
- 136B Orders requiring person to give evidence
- 136C Parentage testing orders
- 136D Orders associated with parentage testing orders
- 136E Adult contravening s. 136D order, consequences of
- 136F Procedure etc. ordered for child, parental consent needed in some cases, consequences of refusing to consent
- 136G No liability if parent or CEO consents
- 136H Parentage testing procedures, conduct of etc.
- 136I Results of parentage testing procedures admissible in protection proceedings
Division 3 -- Pre-hearing conferences
- 136 Court may order pre-hearing conference
- 137 Confidentiality of pre-hearing conference
Division 4 -- Reports about child
- 138 Term used: report
- 139 Court may require report
- 140 Access to written report
- 141 Confidentiality of report
- 142 Protection from liability for preparing or giving report
Division 5 -- Proposals about arrangements for child
- 143 CEO to provide Court with proposal for child
- 144 Court to consider proposal
Division 6 -- Procedural matters
- 145 Conduct of protection proceedings generally
- 146 Court not bound by rules of evidence
- 147 Parties to protection proceedings
- 148 Legal representation of child
- 149 Presence of child in court
- 150 Evidence of child
- 151 Standard of proof
- 152 Intervention by Attorney General
- 153 Court to facilitate party’s participation in proceedings
- 154 Court may dispense with requirement for service
- 155 Frivolous or vexatious proceedings
PART 6 -- Transfer of child protection orders and proceedings
Division 1 -- Introductory matters
- 156 Purpose of PART
- 157 Terms used
Division 2 -- Transfer of child protection orders
Subdivision 1 -- Administrative transfers
- 158 When CEO may transfer home order
- 159 Persons whose consent is required under s. 158(1)(d)
- 160 CEO to have regard to certain matters
- 161 Notification of decision to transfer
- 162 Judicial review of CEO’s decision
- 163 Review by State Administrative Tribunal
Subdivision 2 -- Judicial transfers
- 164 When Court may transfer home order
- 165 Service of application under s. 164
- 166 Court to have regard to certain matters
- 167 Proposed interstate orders, terms of
- 168 Court not to make s. 164 order without report from CEO
- 169 Appeals
Division 3 -- Transfer of child protection proceedings
- 170 When Court may transfer child protection proceeding
- 171 Service of application under s. 170
- 172 Court to have regard to certain matters
- 173 Interim order
- 174 Appeals
Division 4 -- Registration
- 175 Filing interstate orders in Court
- 176 Registering interstate orders
- 177 Notification by registrar of Court
- 178 Effect of registration
- 179 Revocation of registration
Division 5 -- General
- 180 Legal representation of child
- 181 Effect of registration of transferred order
- 182 Transfer of Court file
- 183 Hearing and determination of transferred proceeding
- 184 Disclosure of information
- 185 Discretion of CEO to consent to transfer
- 186 Evidence of consent of relevant interstate officer
- 187 Offence to remove certain children from where they live
PART 7 -- Employment of children
- 188 Terms used
- 189 School Education Act 1999 not affected
- 190 Child under 15 not to be employed in business etc.
- 191 Exceptions to s. 190
- 192 Children not to be employed to perform in indecent manner etc.
- 193 CEO may prohibit or limit employment of child
- 194A CEO may prohibit or limit employment of children in particular business or place
- 194 False information to employers etc.
- 195 Powers of authorised officers
- 196 Role of industrial inspectors and industrial magistrate’s courts
PART 9 -- Provision of financial or other assistance
- 233 CEO may provide financial or other assistance
- 234 CEO may assist with funeral expenses
- 235 Application for assistance
- 236 Recovery of overpayments in certain circumstances
PART 10 -- Confidentiality provisions
- 237 Restriction on publication of certain information or material
- 238 Production of departmental records in legal proceedings
- 239 Objection to disclosure of certain information during legal proceedings
- 240 Restrictions on disclosing notifier’s identity
- 241 Restrictions on disclosing information obtained under this Act
PART 11 -- Other matters
- 242A CEO to notify Ombudsman of certain deaths of children
- 242 Obstruction
- 243 Impersonating assessor or authorised officer
- 244 False information in applications etc.
- 245 Legal proceedings, commencement of
- 246 Protection from liability for wrongdoing
- 247 Effect of provision requiring document to be given to particular person or child
- 248 Regulations
- 249 Review of Act
- 250 Repeal, transitional and savings provisions