The Public Education Act 1899 (s.9) (63 Vict. No. 3) appointed officers to ‘accost in the streets or other public places’ children ‘of school age who are apparently not in attendance at school’. Those children accused of truancy and their parents could then be brought before the courts and children who were found to be…
The Industrial Schools Act 1874 Amendment Act 1877 amended the Industrial Schools Act 1874. It stopped children who were voluntarily placed in an industrial school from coming under the guardianship of the manager of that institution until they had been there for at least one year (s.2). The manager’s power to apprentice children without their…
The Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act 1882 (1882/020) added the Rottnest Island Reformatory to the schedule of institutions governed by the Industrial Schools Act 1874. Both Acts were repealed by the State Children Act 1907. The Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act 1882 amended the Industrial Schools Act 1874 by adding the Rottnest Island Reformatory to…
The Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1893(1893/005) amended the Industrial Schools Act 1874. It classified children (‘inmates’) into two types: those children deemed ‘neglected’ or in need of protection and those children who had been convicted of offences and were therefore ‘juvenile offenders’. The juvenile offenders were sentenced to a reformatory school and the other…
The purpose of the The Salvation Army (Western Australia) Property Trust Act 1931 (034 of 1931 (22 Geo. V No. 34)) was to regulate the financial affairs of the Salvation Army in Western Australia. In the Preamble, the Act gives some historical information about the establishment of the Salvation Army in Britain and WA.
The Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1941 removed the penalty of whipping from the 1927 Act by repealing s.124 clauses and substituting another which mandated that ‘the fact of such committal or conviction shall not be disclosed to any person, except with the consent of the Minister, or be admitted as evidence in any court…
The Education Act 1928 (033 of 1928 (19 Geo. V No. 33)) consolidated and modernised educational legislation that had developed in Western Australia since 1871. It governed the education of children and young people in Western Australia for the remainder of the twentieth century. The Act gave a lot of attention to developing mechanisms to…
The Criminal Code Amendment Act 1965 (Act no. 091 of 1965) was passed on 8 December 1965. The amending act substituted the reference to an industrial or reformatory school to more general descriptions of custody (s.18) and to include references to a child being placed in the care of the Child Welfare Department as per…
The Criminal Code Amendment Act (No. 2) 1956 (Act no. 043 of 1956 (5 Eliz. II No. 43)) was assented to on 11 October 1956 and commenced on 18 December 1956. It was ‘An Act to amend the Criminal Code’. When amending the Criminal Code in 1956 to change penalities for driving offences, the reference…
The Criminal Code Amendment Act 1918 (Act no. 032 of 1918 (9 Geo. V No. 22)) amended the Criminal Code in a way that allowed allowed the Chlidren’s Court to have jurisdiction over young people up to the age of 18 years, rather than 16 years as previously. The child would then be dealt with…
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