Queensland Numbered Acts

DIRECTOR OF CHILD PROTECTION LITIGATION ACT 2016 - SECT 39

39 Director may make guidelines

(1) The director may issue written guidelines to any of the following—

(a) the director’s staff;

(b) the chief executive (child safety);

(c) public service employees employed in the department administered by the chief executive (child safety) undertaking work relevant to the director’s functions;

(d) persons engaged by the director under section 11.

(2) The guidelines—

(a) must be consistent with this Act and the Child Protection Act 1999 ; and

(b) may include the following—

(i) procedures about the referral of child protection matters to the director by the chief executive (child safety), including the form and content of a brief of evidence required under section 16;

(ii) procedures for dealing with child protection matters, including factors the director must have regard to in deciding whether to apply for child protection orders;

(iii) principles and procedures for the conduct of child protection proceedings, including procedures about the roles of the director and chief executive (child safety) during the proceedings;

(iv) procedures about how the chief executive (child safety) may seek an internal review of a decision of the director for which reasons are required to be given under section 18;

(v) procedures about the director’s functions mentioned in section 9(2)(a), (b) and (c), including how matters relevant to those functions are referred to the director by the chief executive (child safety).

(3) Subsection (2)(b) does not limit the matters for which guidelines may be made.

(4) A guideline must not be made in relation to a particular case.