CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 159H Chief executive may ask particular entities to provide a service

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 159H

159H Chief executive may ask particular entities to provide a service

(1) This section applies only to the following entities—

(a) a licensee;

(b) the chief executive of a department that is mainly responsible for any of the following matters—

(i) adult corrective services;

(ii) community services;

(iii) disability services;

(iv) education;

(v) housing services;

(vi) public health;

(ba) the chief executive officer of the Mater Misericordiae Health Services Brisbane Ltd (ACN 096 708 922);

(baa) a health service chief executive within the meaning of the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011 ;

(c) the police commissioner.

(2) The chief executive may ask an entity to provide a service—

(a) to a child in need of protection, or a member of the child’s family, to help meet the child’s protection and care needs and promote the child’s wellbeing; or

(b) to an individual, before the birth of a child, to help meet the child’s protection and care needs and promote the child’s wellbeing after the child is born.

(3) The entity must take reasonable steps to comply with the request so far as the request—

(a) is consistent with the entity’s functions; and

(b) does not unreasonably affect the discharge of the entity’s functions in relation to other persons or matters.

(4) The chief executive must give the entity the information it needs to comply with the request.