CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 379 Appraisal orders—who must be given application

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 379

    (1)     The director-general must give a copy of an application for an appraisal order for a child or young person to the following people at least 1 working day before the application is to be heard by the court:

        (a)     the child or young person;

        (b)     each parent of the child or young person;

        (c)     each other person (if any) who has daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the child or young person;

        (d)     the public advocate;

        (e)     if the child or young person is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person—the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner.

    (2)     This section does not apply—

        (a)     to an application under section 377 (Appraisal orders—urgent applications); or

        (b)     if the director-general or a police officer has daily care responsibility for a child or young person under part 13.1 (Emergency action).

Note     In those cases, the director-general need only give a copy of the application to people before the application is heard by the court (see  s 377 and s 413).