Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941 (1941 - 1987)

From

1941

To

1987

Categories

Principal Act

Location

Australian Capital Territory

The Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941 (Act no. 12/1941) was Commonwealth legislation that approved an agreement made between the Commonwealth and the state of New South Wales for the reception, detention and maintenance in institutions in NSW of children committed to those institutions by courts of the ACT. When an ACT court committed a child to a state institution, the child may be taken by an ACT officer to a shelter in Sydney. The child then came under the provisions of the Child Welfare Act 1939 (NSW) as if the child had been committed to a NSW institution by a NSW children's court. The agreement was varied by the Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1962. The law was repealed by the Children's Services Act 1986 (Commonwealth) effective from 30 June 1987.

Timeline

1941 - 1987

Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941

1987 - 2000

Children's Services Act 1986