Western Australian Current Acts

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 65

65 .         Court may order payments to special guardian

        (1)         On the making of a protection order (special guardianship), or at any time while such an order is in force, the Court may, on the application of a party to the initial proceedings, order the CEO to pay to the special guardian amounts in accordance with the prescribed scale at such intervals as are prescribed.

        (2)         The CEO must give effect to an order made under subsection (1).

        (3)         The Court may, on the application of a party to the initial proceedings, revoke an order made under subsection (1).

        (4A)         An order made under subsection (1) ceases to be in force if the protection order (special guardianship) in relation to which it was made ceases to be in force.

        (4)         For the purposes of this section, the regulations —

            (a)         are to prescribe the scale of amounts payable; and

            (b)         may prescribe different amounts for different classes of children; and

            (c)         are to prescribe the intervals at which payments are to be made.

        [Section 65 amended: No. 49 of 2010 s. 30; No. 23 of 2015 s. 35.]