New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1987 - SECT 37

37 Removal of children from unlicensed residential child care centres

(1) If:

(a) a child resides:

(i) at a residential child care centre to which this Division applies that is not licensed, or

(ii) at a licensed residential child care centre that is conducted otherwise than by the licensed manager of the centre,

(b) an officer requests a person responsible for the child to remove the child from the residential child care centre, and

(c) the child is not forthwith so removed,

the child shall be deemed to be a child in need of care.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to or in respect of a child who is related to the person who has the care of the child at that centre.