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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 164 Protection of community advocate and person providing information to community advocate

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 164

Protection of community advocate and person providing information to community advocate

    If the community advocate receives a report that a person believes or suspects that a child or young person is in need of care and protection and provides the report to the chief executive—

        (a)     the report is taken to be a report under section 158 (Voluntary reporting); and

        (b)     the person who made the report to the community advocate is taken to have made the report to the chief executive; and

        (c)     section 163 (Protection of people making reports) applies to the providing of the report by the community advocate to the chief executive as if he or she had made the report in good faith.

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