CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 661 Transfer of ACT proceedings—interim orders

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 661

    (1)     If the Childrens Court makes an order transferring a child welfare proceeding pending in the court to the State Childrens Court of a participating State, the court must also make an interim order (an interim child welfare order ) for the care, welfare or development of the child or young person.

    (2)     An interim child welfare order may do any of the following:

        (a)     give parental responsibility for the child or young person to someone;

        (b)     allow contact between the child or young person and someone else;

        (c)     give responsibility for the supervision of the child or young person to—

              (i)     the interstate officer in the participating State; or

              (ii)     someone else in that State to whom responsibility for the supervision of a child or young person could be given under the child welfare law of that State.

    (3)     The length of an interim child welfare order—

        (a)     must be stated in the order; and

        (b)     must not be longer than 30 days.

    (4)     The State Childrens Court of the participating State may amend, extend or revoke the interim child welfare order.