CHILDREN (PROTECTION AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) ACT 1997

New South Wales Consolidated Acts

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CHILDREN (PROTECTION AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) ACT 1997 - SECT 3

Definitions

3 Definitions

In this Act:
"Aboriginal" means a person who:

(a) is a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia, and

(b) identifies as an Aboriginal, and

(c) is accepted by the Aboriginal community as an Aboriginal.

"Aboriginal child" means a child of an Aboriginal.
"approved person" means a person chosen from a list of persons designated by the Director-General of the Department of Community Services under section 24.
"area" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993 and includes part of an area.
"care residence" of a person means the place where the person resides under the care or in the custody of a carer.
"carer" of a person means the person who has the care or custody of that person under Part 6 (Wards and protected persons) of the Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 .
"child" means a person who is under the age of 18 years.
"council" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"court" means a court exercising criminal jurisdiction.
"crime prevention" includes, but is not limited to, strategies, initiatives and services that are likely to develop or enhance a safer community.
"cultural heritage" includes beliefs, morals, laws, customs, religion, superstitions, art, language, diet, dress and race.
"Department" means the Attorney General’s Department.
"exercise a function" includes perform a duty.
"function" includes a power, authority or duty.
"local crime prevention plan" means a local crime prevention plan adopted by a council under Part 4 and in force in relation to an area.
"operational area" means an area in respect of which a declaration under section 14 is in force.
"parent" of a child includes:

(a) a guardian of the child, and

(b) a person who has custody of the child,

but does not include the Minister administering the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 or the Director-General of the Department of Community Services, or the father or mother of the child if the father or mother has neither guardianship nor custody of the child.
"public place" means:

(a) a place (whether or not covered by water), or

(b) a part of premises,

that is open to the public, or is used by the public, whether or not on payment of money or other consideration, whether or not it is ordinarily so open or used and whether or not the public to whom it is open consists of only a limited class of persons.
"safer community compact" -see section 39.
"Torres Strait Islander" means a descendant of an indigenous inhabitant of the Torres Strait Islands.
"Torres Strait Islander child" means a child of a Torres Strait Islander.

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