CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 476 What is a short-term parental responsibility provision?

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 476

In the care and protection chapters:

"short-term parental responsibility provision" means a parental responsibility provision in a care and protection order that is not longer than—

        (a)     for a child who is younger than 2 years old when the order is made—1 year; and

        (b)     in any other case—2 years.

Note     The length of a care and protection order is dealt with in s 465.