New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 58

58 Role of Children’s Court Clinic

(1) If the Children’s Court makes an assessment order, it is to appoint the Children’s Court Clinic to prepare and submit the assessment report concerning the child or young person to it, unless the Children’s Court Clinic informs the Children’s Court that:

(a) it is unable or unwilling to prepare the assessment report, or

(b) it is of the opinion that it is more appropriate for the assessment report to be prepared by another person.

(2) If the Children’s Court Clinic informs the Children’s Court that it is unable or unwilling to prepare the assessment report or that it is of the opinion that it is more appropriate for the assessment report to be prepared by another person, the Children’s Court is to appoint a person whose appointment is, so far as possible, to be agreed to by the child or young person being assessed, the parents or other persons who have parental responsibility for the child or young person and the Director-General.