CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 198
Explanation and purpose
CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 198
Explanation and purpose
198 Explanation and purpose
(1) Chapter 2 provides for the making of child protection orders and the
conduct of child protection proceedings in the Childrens Court.
(2) Laws of
other States and New Zealand provide for similar orders and proceedings.
(3)
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the transfer of the orders and
proceedings between Queensland and other States, and between Queensland and
New Zealand—
(a) so that children in need of protection may be protected if
they move from one jurisdiction to another; and
(b) so that proceedings
relating to the protection of a child may be decided, in a timely and
expeditious way, in a court in the most appropriate jurisdiction.
(4) The
transfer of an order from one jurisdiction to another enables the law of the
receiving jurisdiction to provide for the administration and enforcement of
the order as if it were made in the receiving jurisdiction.
(5) Similarly,
the transfer of a proceeding from one jurisdiction to another enables the law
of the receiving jurisdiction to provide for the proceeding to be heard and
decided as if it had been started there.
