CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 815 Power to enter premises—ch 15 (Care and Protection—director-general has

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 815

    (1)     For this Act, an authorised person may, at any reasonable time, enter premises where a child or young person is living if—

        (a)     the director-general has placed the child or young person with an out-of-home carer under section 512; and

        (b)     the purpose of the entry is to ensure that the child or young person is being properly cared for.

    (2)     For this Act, an authorised person may also, at any reasonable time, enter a place operated by a residential care service if—

        (a)     the Minister—

              (i)     is deciding whether to approve the place as a place of care under section 525; and

              (ii)     has asked the residential care service to allow the director-general to inspect the place; and

        (b)     the residential care service has agreed to allow the director-general to inspect the place.

Note     If the residential care service does not allow the director-general to inspect the place, the Minister need not decide whether to approve the place as a place of care (see  s 525).

    (3)     This section is additional to section 813.

    (4)     In this section:

"at any reasonable time" includes at any time during normal business hours.

Note     An official visitor also inspects places of care and handles complaints made by children and young people who are placed with a residential care service and accommodated at a place of care (see pt 2.3 and Official Visitor Act 2012

).