New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY SERVICES (COMPLAINTS, REVIEWS AND MONITORING) ACT 1993 - SECT 35

35 Application of Part

(1) This Part applies in respect of the deaths of the following persons (in this Part referred to as "reviewable deaths"):

(a) a child in care,

(d) a child whose death is or may be due to abuse or neglect or that occurs in suspicious circumstances,

(e) a child who, at the time of the child’s death, was an inmate of a children’s detention centre, a correctional centre or a lock-up (or was temporarily absent from such a place),

(f) a person (whether or not a child) who, at the time of the person’s death, was living in, or was temporarily absent from, residential care provided by a service provider and authorised or funded under the Disability Services Act 1993 or a residential centre for handicapped persons (in this Part referred to as a "person in residential care"),

(g) a person (other than a child in care) who is in a target group within the meaning of the Disability Services Act 1993 who receives from a service provider assistance (of a kind prescribed by the regulations) to enable the person to live independently in the community.

(2) In this Part:
"child" means a person under the age of 18 years.