New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INFANTS' CUSTODY AND SETTLEMENTS ACT 1899 - SECT 10

10 Court may order custody of minors in certain cases

(1) Whenever the Court is satisfied that the parent or person having the custody of a minor is unfit to continue to have such custody by reason of cruelty or neglect to the minor the Court may order that the minor shall be given up to the custody of some near relative or other person willing to accept such custody, and may by such order impose terms for the maintenance of the minor chargeable upon the parent.

(2) Such order may be varied or revoked from time to time at the discretion of the Court.