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CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 232

What may a temporary assessment order provide for?

    (1)     A temporary assessment order may—

        (a)     authorise the Secretary to enter the premises where the child is living;

        (b)     require the parent of the child or any person with whom the child is living to permit the Secretary to enter the premises where the child is living;

        (c)     require the parent of the child or any person with whom the child is living to permit the Secretary to interview the child and to take the child to a place determined by the Secretary for that interview;

        (d)     authorise, subject to section 233, the medical examination of the child by a registered medical practitioner or a registered psychologist;

        (e)     direct the parent of the child or any person with whom the child is living to permit the Secretary to take the child for that medical examination;

S. 232(1)(f) amended by No. 48/2006 s. 16.

        (f)     authorise the results of the medical examination to be given to the Secretary;

        (g)     require the parent of the child or any person with whom the child is living to attend an interview with the Secretary and, subject to section 234, to answer any questions put to them in the interview;

        (h)     give any other directions or impose any conditions that the Court considers to be in the best interests of the child.

    (2)     If the application for a temporary assessment order is made under section 229, the order must include a statement setting out the right of the child or the parent of the child to apply to the Court under section 235 for the order to be varied or revoked.

    (3)     If the temporary assessment order authorises the medical examination of the child, the order must include a statement setting out the terms of section 233.

    (4)     A temporary assessment order must direct the Secretary to provide to the Court by a date specified in the order a report about the outcome of the investigation or assessment.



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