Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 415

    (1)     This section applies if the director-general or a police officer has daily care responsibility for a child or young person under this division and, at the end of the period for which the director-general or police officer may keep responsibility—

        (a)     none of the following orders have been made for the child or young person:

              (i)     an appraisal order with a temporary parental responsibility provision;

              (ii)     an interim care and protection order with a parental responsibility provision;

              (iii)     a care and protection order with a parental responsibility provision;

              (iv)     an interim intensive therapy order;

              (v)     an intensive therapy order; and

        (b)     the director-general or police officer still has daily care responsibility for the child or young person.

    (2)     The director-general or police officer must deliver the child or young person into the care of 1 of the following people:

        (a)     a parent of the child or young person who has parental responsibility for the child or young person;

        (b)     someone else who has daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the child or young person;

        (c)     a former caregiver of the child or young person.