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COMMUNITY WELFARE ACT - SECT 62L

Order of Court

62L. Order of Court

(1) On determining the application, the Family Matters Court may make an order -

(a) for the transfer of the home order to the receiving State; or

(b) dismissing the application.

(2) If the Court makes an order under subsection (1)(a), the order must specify the terms of the proposed child protection order, including the period that the order is to be in force in the receiving State.

(3) The period the proposed child protection order is to be in force in the receiving State is to be any period, commencing on the date of its registration in the receiving State and expiring not later than the date on which the home order would (but for the transfer) have expired, for which the order may be in force under the child welfare law of that State.

(4) In determining the other terms of the proposed child protection order, the Court may include any terms that -

(a) may, under the child welfare law of the receiving State, be included in a child protection order relating to the child (whether or not having the same or similar effect as the home order to be transferred); and

(b) the Court considers promote the welfare and interests of the child.



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