CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)  (No 54 of 1996)

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.   This Act may be cited as the Children's Services (Amendment) Act 1996.  
2.   This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.  
3.   In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Children's Services Act 1986.1  
4.   Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended--  
5.   Section 83 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3) all the words after "satisfied that" and substituting "an order of that kind would be more appropriate in the circumstances than an order of the kind specified in paragraph (1) (a) or (b)".  

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- LONG TITLE
An Act to amend the Children's
Services Act 1986
 Short title

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- SECT 1
1.  This Act may be cited as the Children's Services (Amendment) Act 1996.
 Commencement

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- SECT 2
2.  This Act commences on the day on which it is notified in the Gazette.
 Principal Act

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- SECT 3
3.  In this Act, "Principal Act" means the Children's Services Act 1986.1
 Matters to be considered concerning children

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- SECT 4
4.  Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended--
     (a)     by omitting from subsection (3) "For" and
substituting "Subject to subsection (4), for"; and
     (b)     by adding at the end the following subsections:
"(4)  For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), the court, body,
authority or person shall regard the best interests of the child as the
paramount consideration.
"(5)  In subsection (4)--
'interests', in relation to a child, includes matters related
to the care, welfare or development of the child.".
 Care orders

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- SECT 5
5.  Section 83 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (3) all the words after "satisfied that" and substituting "an order of that kind would be more appropriate in the circumstances than an order of the kind specified in paragraph (1) (a) or (b)".
     

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
- NOTES
NOTE

Principal Act

1.    Reprinted as at 6 February 1995.  See also Acts Nos. 25 and 46,
1995.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 26 September
1996]

(c)  Australian Capital Territory
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CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT)
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No. 54 of 1996
    
    [Notified in ACT Gazette S312: 22 November 1996]