The Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPAA) replaces the Freedom of Information Act 1989. GIPAA creates new rights to information that are designed to meet community expectations of more open and transparent government. The Act encourages the routine and proactive release of government information. The GIPAA establishes four ways for government information to be…
The Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987 (57/1987) was ‘An Act with respect to the detention of children and other young persons who are on remand or who have been found guilty of criminal offences’. This Act updated the law around how and when young people could be detained, remanded, and imprisoned.’ This Act came as…
The Children’s Court Act 1987 (53/1987) replaced existing legislation relating to Children’s Courts. This Act (which had the long title ‘An Act to establish a Children’s Court of New South Wales’) gave the NSW Children’s Court its own piece of legislation for the first time. It separated the Children’s Court further from the rest of…
The Children (Criminal Proceedings Act 1987 (55/1987) was ‘An Act with respect to the conduct of criminal proceedings against children and other young persons’. It updated the proceedings of the criminal justice system for children and young people. It required that courts try to make sure children brought before them understood the proceedings, the allegations,…
The Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1969 was ‘An Act relating to certain proceedings before children’s courts, the execution of certain warrants and the transfer of persons between prisons and institutions; to provide for the care of wards and persons having the like status who travel or remove between States; to make further provision with respect…
The Miscellaneous Acts (Community Welfare) Repeal and Amendment Act 1987 was an Act used to repeal a number of pieces of child welfare legislation, clearing the way for the passage of the Community Welfare Act 1987. It was repealed in 2007.
The Children (Equality of Status) Act 1976 (97/1976) was ‘an Act to remove legal disabilities of ex-nuptial children; to facilitate the establishment of the paternity and maternity of children; and to amend the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act, 1973, and certain other Acts’. It removed the nineteenth and early twentieth century inequality in…
The Status of Children Act 1996 (76/1996) was ‘An Act to re-enact without any substantive changes provisions contained in the Children (Equality of Status) Act 1976 concerning the removal of legal disabilities of ex-nuptial children; to provide for parentage presumptions and parentage testing procedures; to repeal the Children (Equality of Status) Act 1976 and the…
The Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act 1962 (28/1962) ratified the agreement, existing since 1941, between the NSW and ACT governments that children committed to homes by Courts in the ACT could be placed in New South Wales. This was made under the Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act 1941 and Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance…
The Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act 1941 was an Act to ratify an agreement between New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia that children committed to Homes by Courts in the Australian Capital Territory could be transferred to the New South Wales Child Welfare Department. The Agreement was made via the Child Welfare…
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