Queensland Numbered Acts

DIRECTOR OF CHILD PROTECTION LITIGATION ACT 2016 - SECT 45

45 Existing proceedings

(1) This section applies to the following proceedings—

(a) a child protection proceeding;

(b) a proceeding in an appellate court for—

(i) an appeal against a decision about an application started under the pre-amended Child Protection Act 1999 , chapter 3, part 4; or

(ii) an appeal against a decision to transfer a child protection order or child protection proceeding to a participating State started under the pre-amended Child Protection Act 1999 , chapter 7, part 2 or 4.

(2) If, immediately before the commencement, the proceeding had not been finally dealt with—

(a) on the commencement the director becomes a party to the proceeding in place of the authorised officer; and

(b) for a child protection proceeding—the application the subject of the proceeding is taken to be a child protection matter.

(3) Section 24 applies to the chief executive (child safety) in relation to the child protection proceeding.