State Children Relief Act 1901 (1901 - 1923)

From

1901

To

1923

Categories

Principal Act

Alternative Names

• An Act to consolidate the Acts relating to the establishment of a system of Boarding-out Children

Location

New South Wales

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 This Act was amended by the Neglected Children and Juvenile Offenders Act 1905 and repealed by The Child Welfare Act 1923.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