New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1987 - SECT 91

91 Functions of the Minister in relation to wards and protected persons

(1) The Minister:

(a) shall provide for the accommodation, care and maintenance of wards and protected persons,

(b) may make payments, at such rates as may be prescribed by the regulations, to persons having the care of wards or protected persons,

(c) may direct the removal of any ward or protected person from one place to another,

(d) may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the regulations and to such additional conditions as the Minister may determine, place any ward or protected person:

(i) in the custody of a person in charge of a non-Government organisation, or

(ii) for the purpose of the ward or protected person being fostered, in the custody of any person approved by the Minister,

being a person who is willing to undertake the custody of the ward or protected person,

(e) may terminate the custody of a ward or protected person who has been placed in the custody of a person referred to in paragraph (d) (i) or (ii), and

(f) may direct that a ward be restored to the custody of a parent of the ward or be placed in the custody of any other person.

(2) Payment to a person in respect of a ward or protected person shall not continue after the ward or protected person has attained the age of 15 years unless:

(a) the payment is made for the purpose of securing education or vocational training on a full-time basis for the ward or protected person,

(b) the ward or protected person is an invalid or is otherwise incapacitated, or

(c) the case possesses unusual features which, in the opinion of the Minister, call for special consideration,

and the Minister authorises the making of the payment.

(3) This section is subject, in relation to a ward or protected person, to the requirements imposed by the provisions of this or any other Act or of any declaration, order or other thing under which the person became a ward or protected person.