Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 529

    (1)     This section applies if—

        (a)     a care entity for a child or young person for a placement keeps protected information or personal items under section 527; and

        (b)     the care entity has not given the protected information or personal items to the director-general under section 528.

    (2)     The director-general may, if satisfied on reasonable grounds that it is in the child's or young person's best interests, direct the care entity to give the child or young person—

        (a)     the protected information or personal items; or

        (b)     access to the protected information or personal items.

    (3)     A direction may be conditional.

    (4)     If the director-general gives a care entity a direction, the care entity must comply with the direction.

    (5)     If the direction is subject to a condition about the access to be given, the care entity must comply with the condition.

    (6)     This section is subject to division 15.5.4 (Entitlement to personal items and access to personal information).

Note     Div 15.5.4 applies to young people who have left out-of-home care.