The Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1967 (27/1967) was ‘An Act relating to proceedings before children’s courts; to make provision for the care of intellectually handicapped children and young persons; for these and other purposes to amend the Child Welfare Act, 1939, as amended by subsequent Acts’. It brought the issue of disability more clearly under…
The Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1966 was ‘An Act to amend the law relating to the payment of allowances in respect of children, young persons and others; to provide for the licensing of certain persons providing facilities for the caring of children; for these and other purposes to amend the Child Welfare Act, 1939-1965, in…
The Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1961 (15/1961) was ‘an Act to make further provision with respect to the admission of certain children to State control; for this purpose to amend the Child Welfare Act, 1939-1960’. It was a brief administrative Act that allowed children who were not being maintained in institutions by their relatives to…
The Child Welfare (Further Amendment) Act 1961 (27/1961) was ‘An Act to make further provisions with respect to payments in connection with, and to prohibit the publication of certain statements relating to, the adoption of children and other persons’. It forbade payments and advertisements for adoptions, and made it illegal for people to arrange adoptions…
The Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1924 (69/1924) was ‘An Act to amend the provisions of the Child Welfare Act, 1923, relating to the adoption of children’. This administrative amendment clarified the rules about who could apply for adoption orders to a Court, and how the documentation had to be filled out. It was repealed by…
The State Children Relief Act 1896 amended the State Children Relief Act 1881 to provide clearer regulations around the boarding out and apprenticeship of state children. It provided for state children to be cared for in cottage homes, and created a system for dealing with the money earned by apprentices. It also allowed children to…
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1918 extended the reach of the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 to include, specifically, ‘any person having apparently an admixture of Aboriginal blood’. This, in effect, meant that any police officer or employee of the Aborigines Protection Board could decide whether someone was Aboriginal by looking at them. It swept more…
Requiring the consent of a child to the making of a community service order or restricting orders to children under fourteen.
Enables the Director-General to place children in foster care and requires children to be informed of reasons for removal and likely consequences.
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1943 (13/1943) created ‘exemption certificates’ which enabled an Aboriginal person to argue they should no longer be deemed to be ‘an aborigine or a person apparently having an admixture of aboriginal blood’, and could thus escape the provisions of the Aborigines Protection Act and enjoy similar freedoms to white people….
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