New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN (PROTECTION AND PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY) ACT 1997 - SECT 40

40 Effect of approval

(1) A local crime prevention plan, or a draft local crime prevention plan that is subsequently adopted by the council, that is approved by the Attorney General as a safer community compact comprises a safer community compact for so long as the approval of it remains in force.

(2) The Attorney General may, on application by the council for an area for which there is or is proposed to be a safer community compact, grant such financial assistance as the Attorney General considers appropriate to the council.

(3) The financial assistance is to be provided out of money to be appropriated by Parliament or that is otherwise legally available for the purposes of this Part.

(4) In this section:
"financial assistance" means assistance to cover:

(a) expenses incurred in undertaking any initiative proposed by a safer community compact, and

(b) any expenses incurred, or to be incurred, in developing a proposed safer community compact, or monitoring a safer community compact.