Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 529L

    (1)     This section applies if a young person who has left out-of-home care asks for access to protected information about the young person that is held by—

        (a)     the director-general; or

        (b)     an approved kinship and foster care organisation; or

        (c)     a previous out-of-home carer for the young person.

Note 1     Previous out-of-home carer , for a young person—see  s 529BA.
Protected information —see s 844.

Note 2     Some out-of-home carers are required to keep protected information (see div 15.4.3).

    (2)     The director-general may, if satisfied on reasonable grounds that it is in the young person's best interests—

        (a)     give the young person access, free of charge, to the protected information held by the director-general; and

        (b)     direct the organisation or carer to give the young person access, free of charge, to the protected information held by the organisation or carer.

    (3)     A direction under subsection (2) (b) may be conditional.

    (4)     If the director-general gives an organisation or carer a direction, the organisation or carer must comply with the direction.

    (5)     If the direction is subject to a condition about the access, the organisation or carer must comply with the condition.