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CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 - SECT 592C

Meaning of relevant historical care and protection order

    (1)     A "relevant" historical care and protection order , in relation to a person, means an order, however expressed or described, in the nature of an order made by a court as a result of an application for an order for the care and protection of the person when the person was a child.

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1)—

        (a)     an order of the kind described in that subsection includes, but is not limited to, an order of a kind described in that subsection under any of the following—

              (i)     the Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864 ;

              (ii)     An Act to provide for the Protection and Management of Aboriginal Natives of Victoria (no. CCCXLIX (349) also known as the Aborigines Protection Act 1869 ;

              (iii)     the Children's Court Act 1986 ;

              (iv)     the Children's Welfare Act 1928 ;

              (v)     the Community Welfare Services Act 1970 ;

              (vi)     the Children and Young Persons Act 1989 ;

              (vii)     a prescribed Act; and

        (b)     a "relevant" historical care and protection order does not include an order, however expressed or described, for the care and protection of the person when the person was a child, or an order in relation to the welfare of the person when the person was a child, if—

              (i)     the child was found guilty of a criminal offence by the court; and

              (ii)     the order was made as part of the sentence imposed by the court for that offence.

S. 592D inserted by No. 42/2018 s. 35.



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