New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 231Z

231Z Arrangements for care

(1) The Minister:

(a) may make financial and other arrangements with an appropriate authority for the care of:

(i) an interstate ward, or

(ii) a child or young person who is under the parental responsibility of the Minister under this Act, and

(b) may, at the Minister’s discretion, or in accordance with any such arrangements, return an interstate ward to the care of the appropriate authority for the interstate ward, and

(c) must, if the appropriate authority for an interstate ward requests the Minister to do so, return the interstate ward to the care of that appropriate authority.

(2) The Minister is to provide for the accommodation, care and maintenance, in accordance with the arrangements referred to in subsection (1), of any interstate ward to whom such an arrangement applies.