Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 883A

    (1)     The director-general may delegate any of the following to a responsible person for an approved kinship and foster care organisation:

        (a)     the director-general's functions under the following provisions:

              (i)     division 14.3.4 (Care plans);

              (ii)     part 14.13 (Annual review reports—parental responsibility provisions and supervision provisions);

              (iii)     division 15.4.1 (Placement with out-of-home carer);

              (iv)     division 15.4.1A (Approval of carers);

              (v)     division 15.5.2 (Transition plans);

              (vi)     division 15.5.4 (Entitlement to personal items and access to protected information);

              (vii)     section 863 (1) (Care teams—sharing safety and wellbeing information);

        (b)     if parental responsibility for a child or young person is transferred to, or shared with, the director-general—the parental responsibility;

        (c)     if, for a contact provision, the director-general is authorised to decide with whom a child or young person may have contact and to decide any conditions for the contact—the authority to decide.

Note 1     The responsible person may subdelegate certain functions in certain circumstances (see s 883B).

Note 2     The director-general must ensure the delegated or subdelegated function is properly exercised (see Legislation Act

, s 238). In addition, the director-general may provide that the delegation has effect only in stated circumstances or subject to stated conditions, limitations or directions (see Legislation Act

, s 234 and s 239). For other provisions about the making of delegations and the exercise of delegated functions, see the Legislation Act

, pt 19.4.

    (2)     The director-general may delegate any of the director-general's functions under the following provisions to a responsible person for a residential care service:

        (a)     division 14.3.4 (Care plans);

        (b)     part 14.13 (Annual review reports—parental responsibility provisions and supervision provisions);

        (c)     division 15.5.2 (Transition plans);

        (d)     division 15.5.4 (Entitlement to personal items and access to protected information);

        (e)     section 863 (1) (Care teams—sharing safety and wellbeing information).

    (3)     In this section:

"contact provision"—see section 485.