Victorian Numbered Acts

CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES ACT 2005 (NO 96 OF 2005) - SECT 240

    (1)     If a protective intervener is satisfied on reasonable grounds that a child is in need of protection, he or she may—

        (a)     serve a notice under section 243 directing that the child appear, or be produced, before the Court for the hearing of a protection application; or

        (b)     with or without a warrant, under section 241, take the child into safe custody or cause another protective intervener to take the child into safe custody pending the hearing of a protection application.

    (2)     After considering what procedure (if any) to take under sub-section (1) in respect of the child, the protective intervener must record in the central register the information arising from the investigation that the Minister determines should be recorded in that register.

    (3)     If the procedure set out in sub-section (1)(a) or (1)(b) has been taken in respect of a child, a protective intervener must as soon as possible make a protection application to the Court and give a copy of the application to—

        (a)     the child's parents, unless they cannot be found after reasonable inquiries; and

        (b)     the child, if he or she is of or above the age of 12 years.