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STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1974 - NOTES

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1974 - NOTES

Version No. 044

No. 8602 of 1974

Version incorporating amendments as at

15 August 2022

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Version No. 044

Status of Children Act 1974

No. 8602 of 1974

Version incorporating amendments as at

15 August 2022

Endnotes

    1     General information

See www.legislation.vic.gov.au for Victorian Bills, Acts and current Versions of legislation and up-to-date legislative information.

The Status of Children Act 1974 was assented to on 26 November 1974 and came into operation 1 March 1975: Government Gazette 5 February 1975 page 228.

INTERPRETATION OF LEGISLATION ACT 1984 (ILA)

Style changes

Section 54A of the ILA authorises the making of the style changes set out in Schedule 1 to that Act.

References to ILA s. 39B

Sidenotes which cite ILA s. 39B refer to section 39B of the ILA which provides that where an undivided section or clause of a Schedule is amended by the insertion of one or more subsections or subclauses, the original section or clause becomes subsection or subclause (1) and is amended by the insertion of the expression "(1)" at the beginning of the original section or clause.

Interpretation

As from 1 January 2001, amendments to section 36 of the ILA have the following effects:

•     Headings

All headings included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any heading inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. This includes headings to Parts, Divisions or Subdivisions in a Schedule; sections; clauses; items; tables; columns; examples; diagrams; notes or forms. See section 36(1A)(2A).

•     Examples, diagrams or notes

All examples, diagrams or notes included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 form part of that Act. Any examples, diagrams or notes inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, form part of that Act. See section 36(3A).

•     Punctuation

All punctuation included in an Act which is passed on or after 1 January 2001 forms part of that Act. Any punctuation inserted in an Act which was passed before 1 January 2001, by an Act passed on or after 1 January 2001, forms part of that Act. See section 36(3B).

•     Provision numbers

All provision numbers included in an Act form part of that Act, whether inserted in the Act before, on or after 1 January 2001. Provision numbers include section numbers, subsection numbers, paragraphs and subparagraphs. See section 36(3C).

•     Location of "legislative items"

A "legislative item" is a penalty, an example or a note. As from 13 October 2004, a legislative item relating to a provision of an Act is taken to be at the foot of that provision even if it is preceded or followed by another legislative item that relates to that provision. For example, if a penalty at the foot of a provision is followed by a note, both of these legislative items will be regarded as being at the foot of that provision. See section 36B.

•     Other material

Any explanatory memorandum, table of provisions, endnotes, index and other material printed after the Endnotes does not form part of an Act.

See section 36(3)(3D)(3E).

    2     Table of Amendments

This publication incorporates amendments made to the Status of Children Act 1974 by Acts and subordinate instruments.

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Statute Law Revision (Repeals) Act 1982, No. 9863/1982

Assent Date:

5.1.83

Commencement Date:

5.1.83

Current State:

All of Act in operation

Status of Children (Amendment) Act 1984, No. 10069/1984

Assent Date:

15.5.84

Commencement Date:

1.8.84: Government Gazette 1.8.84 p. 2713

Current State:

All of Act in operation

Registration of Births Deaths and Marriages (Amendment) Act 1985, No. 10244/1985

Assent Date:

10.12.85

Commencement Date:

31.10.86: Government Gazette 29.10.86 p. 4114

Current State:

All of Act in operation

Magistrates' Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 1989, No. 57/1989

Assent Date:

14.6.89

Commencement Date:

S. 3(Sch. item 188) on 1.9.90: Government Gazette 25.7.90 p. 2217

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Infertility Treatment Act 1995, No. 63/1995

Assent Date:

27.6.95

Commencement Date:

S. 170 on 1.7.88: s. 2(2)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Legal Practice Act 1996, No. 35/1996

Assent Date:

6.11.96

Commencement Date:

S. 453(Sch. 1 item 79) on 1.1.97: s. 2(3)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996, No. 43/1996

Assent Date:

26.11.96

Commencement Date:

S. 65(Sch. items 11.1, 11.2) on 1.11.98: s. 2(3)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Commonwealth Powers (Family Law-Children) (Amendment) Act 1997, No. 59/1997

Assent Date:

5.11.97

Commencement Date:

S. 9 on 1.11.98: s. 2(3)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Statute Law Revision Act 2000, No. 74/2000

Assent Date:

21.11.00

Commencement Date:

S. 3(Sch. 1 item 118) on 22.11.00: s. 2(1)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Health Legislation (Research Involving Human Embryos and Prohibition of Human Cloning) Act 2003, No. 11/2003

Assent Date:

6.5.03

Commencement Date:

S. 25(2)(3) on 16.10.03: Government Gazette 16.10.03 p. 2624

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008, No. 76/2008

Assent Date:

11.12.08

Commencement Date:

Ss 137–147 on 1.1.10: s. 2(3)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Statute Law Amendment (National Health Practitioner Regulation) Act 2010, No. 13/2010

Assent Date:

30.3.10

Commencement Date:

S. 51(Sch. item 53) on 1.7.10: s. 2(2)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Courts Legislation Miscellaneous Amendments Act 2014, No. 62/2014

Assent Date:

9.9.14

Commencement Date:

S. 20 on 10.11.14: Special Gazette (No. 364) 14.10.14 p. 1

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Justice Legislation Amendment (Succession and Surrogacy) Act 2014, No. 80/2014

Assent Date:

21.10.14

Commencement Date:

Ss 3241 on 30.10.14: Special Gazette (No. 400) 29.10.14 p. 2; ss 44, 45 on 1.1.15: Special Gazette (No. 400) 29.10.14 p. 2

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Assisted Reproductive Treatment Amendment (Consent) Act 2019, No. 24/2019

Assent Date:

27.8.19

Commencement Date:

Ss 7, 8 on 28.8.19: s. 2(1); ss 6, 9 on 24.9.19: s. 2(2)

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

Assisted Reproductive Treatment Amendment Act 2021, No. 39/2021

Assent Date:

19.10.21

Commencement Date:

Ss 55−57 on 24.6.22: Special Gazette (No. 267) 31.5.22 p. 1; ss 42–54 on 15.8.22: Special Gazette (No. 384) 2.8.22 p. 1

Current State:

This information relates only to the provision/s amending the Status of Children Act 1974

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    3     Explanatory details

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