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COMMUNITY WELFARE ACT - SECT 62D

Terms of proposed child protection order to be transferred

62D. Terms of proposed child protection order to be transferred

(1) The Minister must determine and specify the period for which a proposed child protection order referred to in section 62C(2)(f) is to be in force.

(2) The period is to be -

(a) if it is possible under the child welfare law of the receiving State for the proposed child protection order to be in force until the expiry of the period that the home order would, but for the transfer, be in force - the period that ends on the expiry of the home order; or

(b) if that is not possible - the period expiring as close as possible to, but not later than, the day that the period for which the home order would, but for the transfer, be in force expires.

(3) In determining the other terms of the proposed child protection order, the Minister may include any terms and conditions that may, under the child welfare law in force in the receiving State, be included in a child protection order having the same or similar effect as the home order to be transferred.



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