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New South Wales - Legislation
State Children Relief Act 1901 (1901 - 1923)
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- 1901
- To
- 1923
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- Principal Act
- Alternative Names
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- An Act to consolidate the Acts relating to the establishment of a system of Boarding-out Children
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The State Children Relief Act 1901 (61/1901) replaced the 1881 legislation by the same name and was the basis of most law to do with state children. It provided the State Children's Relief Board with authority to direct the removal of state children; grant licences for the reception of state children as boarders; apprentice any child; approve persons applying to 'adopt' state children; and arrange terms of 'adoption'. The Act entitled a boarding-out officer to remove a state child from an asylum, reformatory school and arrange for the child to be boarded out. This Act was amended by the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905 and repealed by The Child Welfare Act 1923.
Timeline
- 1881 - 1901
- State Children Relief Act 1881
- 1901 - 1923
- State Children Relief Act 1901
- 1923 - 1939
- Child Welfare Act 1923
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State Children Relief Act 1901
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