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OMBUDSMAN ACT 1989 - SECT 17L

Investigation information may be disclosed to child, parent and carer

    (1)     The ombudsman or the head of a designated entity may disclose investigation information to any of the following:

        (a)     a child who is the subject of conduct that forms the basis of a reportable allegation or a reportable conviction into which an investigation was conducted by the ombudsman or the designated entity;

        (b)     a parent of the child;

        (c)     if the child has been placed with an out-of-home carer—the child's out-of-home carer.

    (2)     In this section:

"parent", of a child, means a person who has parental responsibility for the child.

"parental responsibility"—see the Children and Young People Act 2008

, dictionary.



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