New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 50

50 Discharge of child or young person from Director-General’s care responsibility

(1) The Director-General may, at any time, discharge a child or young person from the Director-General’s care responsibility with or without any undertakings being given by the child or young person or by a parent of the child or young person.

(2) An undertaking, if given, is to be in writing and signed by the person giving it.

(3) In determining whether or not to exercise the power under subsection (1), the Director-General is to have regard to the following:

(a) any views expressed by the child or young person as to whether he or she wishes that power to be exercised,

(b) any views expressed by the child or young person as to whether he or she intends to return to the care and protection of a parent,

(c) whether the exercise by the Director-General of that power is likely to protect the safety, welfare and well-being of the child or young person,

(d) whether the failure by the Director-General to exercise that power is likely to endanger the safety, welfare and well-being of any other person.

(4) If the Director-General discharges the child or young person from the Director-General’s care responsibility following an order of the Children’s Court, the Director-General must explain to the Children’s Court at the next sitting day of the Court why the Director-General’s care responsibility was no longer needed.