Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 373

In the care and protection chapters:

"temporary parental responsibility provision"—

        (a)     means a provision in an appraisal order for a child or young person that transfers daily care responsibility for the child or young person to the director-general; and

        (b)     may provide for the director-general to enter and search any place the director-general believes on reasonable grounds the child or young person is, to find the child or young person.

Note 1     A temporary parental responsibility provision must not be longer than 4 weeks (see  s 384).

Note 2     The director-general may ask the chief police officer for assistance in carrying out a temporary parental responsibility provision in an appraisal order. The chief police officer must, if asked, give assistance to the director-general by assigning police officers to assist the director-general in carrying out the action (see  s 679).