CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 578 Who is an accredited person?
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 578
Who is an accredited person?(1) In this division:
"accredited person", for a child or young person in intensive therapy, means each of the following:
(a) the director-general;
(b) a representative of an entity providing a service or program to the child or young person at an intensive therapy place;
(c) a lawyer representing the child or young person;
(d) a health practitioner providing a health service to the child or young person;
(e) an official visitor;
(f) the chair of the therapeutic support panel;
(g) the public advocate;
(h) a commissioner exercising functions under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005
;
(i) 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;
(j) the ombudsman;
(k) the senior practitioner;
(l) a person prescribed by regulation.
(2) In this section:
"senior practitioner"—see the Senior Practitioner Act 2018
, dictionary.