CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 506 Pt 15.3 applies to care and protection chapters

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 506

    (1)     This part applies if the director-general has daily care responsibility for a child or young person under the care and protection chapters.

Note     Parental responsibility for a child or young person may be transferred to, or shared with, the director-general under the following provisions (see  s 17 and s 18):

              •     an appraisal order including a temporary parental responsibility provision (see s 373)

              •     a voluntary care agreement (see pt 12.3)

              •     emergency action (see pt 13.1)

              •     a care and protection order including a parental responsibility provision (see pt 14.6)

              •     a safe custody warrant (see  s 683)

              •     a court order (under this Act or another law in force in the Territory)

              •     a provision of another law in force in the Territory.

    (2)     However, this part does not apply if daily care responsibility for a child or young person is transferred to the director-general—

        (a)     under an intensive therapy order or an interim intensive therapy order; or

        (b)     because the child or young person has been confined at an intensive therapy place under section 531 (c) (Confinement only under intensive therapy order.

Note     Intensive therapy orders are dealt with in pt 16.2. Interim intensive therapy orders are dealt with in div 16.2.3.