CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 700 Parties—who are parties to an application?
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 700
Parties—who are parties to an application?(1) The following people are parties to an application under the care and protection chapters:
(a) the applicant;
(b) the child or young person;
(c) someone given a copy of the application who takes part in the proceeding (other than as a witness or representative);
Note Representation of children and young people is dealt with in the Court Procedures Act 2004
, pt 7A (Procedural provisions—proceedings involving children).
(d) someone who is a participant in the proceeding (other than as a witness or representative) who has been—
(i) asked to attend by the Childrens Court and been joined as a party to the proceeding; or
(ii) joined as a party to the proceeding on the person's own application.
(2) However, the public advocate or the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner is a party to a proceeding under the care and protection chapters only if the public advocate or the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner applies to be joined as a party.