CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 417 Emergency action release order—application

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 417

    (1)     This section applies if the director-general or a police officer has daily care responsibility for a child or young person under part 13.1.

    (2)     Any of the following people (the applicant ) may apply to the Childrens Court for an emergency action release order:

        (a)     the child or young person;

        (b)     a parent of the child or young person who has parental responsibility for the child or young person;

        (c)     someone else who has daily care responsibility, or long-term care responsibility, for the child or young person;

        (d)     a former caregiver of the child or young person;

        (e)     the public advocate;

        (f)     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.

Note 1     Statements, documents and reports must be included in the application (see  s 696).

Note 2     Oral applications may also be made (see  s 698).