Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

CHILDREN'S SERVICES (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO 17 OF 1994)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART I--PRELIMINARY SHORT TITLE

   1.      This Act may be cited as the Children's Services (Amendment) Act 1994.  
   3.      In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Children's Services Act 1986.1  

   PART II--AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL ACT DIRECTOR TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE

   4.      Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of subsection (1) “, and promoting the protection and care of children”.  
   5.      Section 13 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   6.      Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   7.      Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   8.      Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Community Advocate” (wherever occurring) and substituting “Director”.  
   9.      Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (1) all the words after “Act”.  
   10.     Section 26 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   11.     Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (3) (b) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   12.     Section 62 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   13.     Section 71 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsection (2) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   14.     Section 72 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   15.     Section 73 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   16.     Section 74 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   17.     Section 75 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   18.     Section 76 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   19.     Section 78 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsections (1), (2) and (3) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   20.     Section 82 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   21.     Section 87 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   22.     Section 88 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsections (1) and (2) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   23.     Section 90 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (a) “Director and the” before “Community”.  
   24.     Section 93 of the Principal Act is amended—  
   25.     Section 102 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsections (2), (3), (4) and (5) “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   26.     Section 103 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subsections (1) and (2) “Community Advocate” (wherever occurring) and substituting “Director”.  
   27.     Section 104 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   28.     Section 105 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  
   29.     Section 161 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “Community Advocate” and substituting “Director”.  

   PART III--SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL INTERPRETATION

   30.     In this Part—“commencement day” means the day on which this Act (other than sections 1 and 2) commences.  
   31.     Recommendations made by the Standing Committee under section 17 of the Principal Act, in force immediately before the commencement day, to the Community Advocate, shall (except in relation to matters that occurred before that day) be taken to have been made under section 17 to the Director.  
   32.     Where, before the commencement day, an application was made by the Community Advocate under the Principal Act in force immediately before that day but was not determined, the application may be determined under the Principal Act as amended by this Act as if the applicant were the Director.  
   33.     A reference in an order or direction made by the Court before the commencement day to the Community Advocate shall (except in relation to matters that occurred before that day) be read as a reference to the Director.