CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 92
CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 92
92 . Care plan review panel
(1) The CEO must
establish a care plan review panel for the purposes of this Subdivision.
(2) The care plan
review panel is to consist of not less than 3 members appointed by the CEO.
(3) The members of the
care plan review panel are to be people who have such experience, skills,
attributes or qualifications as the CEO considers appropriate to enable them
to effectively perform their review function.
(3A) At least 1 member
of the care plan review panel must be an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait
Islander.
(4) An officer is not
eligible to be appointed, or hold office, as a member of the care plan review
panel.
(5) The CEO may remove
and replace members of the care plan review panel.
(6) The CEO must
appoint one of the members of the care plan review panel to be the
chairperson.
(7) The CEO may
—
(a)
direct that the members of the care plan review panel (other than an employee
as defined in the Public Sector Management Act 1994 section 3(1)) are to be
paid remuneration or allowances or both; and
(b)
determine the amount of any such payments on the recommendation of the Public
Sector Commissioner.
(8) The CEO must
provide the care plan review panel with such support services as it may
reasonably require.
(9) If there are more
than 3 members of the care plan review panel —
(a) the
panel to which an application under section 93(1) or (2A) is referred must be
constituted by 3 members; and
(b) the
panel, separately constituted under paragraph (a), may sit simultaneously to
hear and determine separate applications referred to the panel.
(10) If an application
referred to the care plan review panel concerns an Aboriginal child or Torres
Strait Islander child, the panel constituted for the review must include at
least 1 Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander.
[Section 92 amended: No. 39 of 2010 s. 89; No. 23
of 2015 s. 40; No. 18 of 2021 s. 42.]