South Australian Consolidated Acts

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 1972 - SECT 84

84—Payment of money to the Chief Executive Officer

        (1)         The Chief Executive Officer may receive money on behalf of a child.

        (2)         The Chief Executive Officer must cause any money received on behalf of a child to be deposited in the Treasury in the name of the Chief Executive Officer on account of the child or in any ADI account in the name of the child.

        (3)         All such money deposited in the Treasury will bear interest at a rate determined by the Treasurer.

        (4)         The whole, or any portion, of the money deposited in the Treasury on behalf of a child pursuant to this section, and any interest on that money, may be expended for the benefit of the child by the Chief Executive Officer at such times, and for such purposes, as the Chief Executive Officer thinks fit.

        (5)         Any money held on behalf of a child pursuant to this section is payable to the child on the Chief Executive Officer ceasing to have any direct responsibility for the affairs of the child.

Subdivision 1—Orders with respect to children