Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 485

In the care and protection chapters:

"contact provision", in a care and protection order, or an interim care and protection order, for a child or young person means a provision—

        (a)     about who may, or must not, have contact with the child or young person; or

        (b)     authorising the director-general or another person to decide with whom the child or young person may have contact and to decide any conditions for the contact.

Examples—decisions and conditions

1     that a child may have contact with a stated person for at least 4 hours each week if the person complies with the drug use provision in the order

2     that a young person may have supervised contact with a stated person twice each week as arranged by the director-general

3     that a child may have contact with a stated person in accordance with a care plan

Note     Contact , with a person, is defined in s 348.