South Australian Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (SAFETY) ACT 2017 - SECT 88

88—Unlawful taking of child or young person

        (1)         This section applies to a child or young person placed in the care of a person under this Act.

        (2)         A person who, without lawful excuse—

            (a)         induces or encourages a child or young person to whom this section applies to leave a place in which the child or young person has been placed under this Act; or

            (b)         takes a child or young person to whom this section applies from a place in which the child or young person has been placed under this Act; or

            (c)         harbours or conceals a child or young person contemplated by a preceding subsection,

is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 12 months.