New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (PROTECTION AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) ACT 1997 - SECT 25

25 Notification requirements

(1) A police officer who places a person to whom this Division applies in the care of a person other than a parent or carer of the person, or who leaves a person at a residence in the absence of a parent or carer, is required to notify a parent of the person or, if the person has a carer, the person’s carer, if the parent or carer is known and notification is practicable.

(2) This section does not require a police officer to notify a person’s parent of the person’s whereabouts if:

(a) the person volunteers to the police officer that he or she does not wish his or her parent to be so notified, and

(b) the police officer is satisfied that it would not be in the person’s best interests to so notify the parent.