Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) This section applies if the director-general has daily care responsibility or long-term care responsibility for a child or young person.
(2) The director-general may authorise (a general parental authority ), in writing, an approved residential care organisation to exercise the daily care or long-term care responsibility for the director-general (a residential care service ).
(3) However, the director-general may authorise an organisation only if the organisation agrees to exercise the responsibility for the director-general for any child or young person.
(4) The organisation must exercise the responsibility subject to any directions of the director-general.
Note An authorisation under this section is suspended if the organisation's approval is suspended under s 352P.