South Australian Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (SAFETY) ACT 2017 - SECT 109

109—Child protection officer may inspect licensed children's residential facility

        (1)         Without limiting any other provision of this Act, a child protection officer may, at any reasonable time, enter and inspect a licensed children's residential facility.

        (2)         A child protection officer may give to the holder of a licence in respect of a licensed children's residential facility, or any person present at the facility, such directions as the child protection officer thinks necessary or appropriate to enable the child protection officer to properly inspect the facility.

        (3)         A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a direction under subsection (2).

Maximum penalty:

            (a)         in the case of a natural person—Imprisonment for 1 year; or

            (b)         in the case of a body corporate—$50 000.

        (4)         To avoid doubt, a child protection officer need not suspect that a child or young person residing in the licensed children's residential facility is at risk, or that the holder of a licence in respect of the facility has contravened this Act, in order to exercise a power under this section.