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…
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 Juvenile Migrants Apprenticeship Act 1923 (52/1923) was ‘An Act to establish a system of apprenticing juvenile assisted migrants; to provide for the care and control of such migrants and their property and earnings’. It was designed to protect young (juvenile) migrant apprentices. The Minister for Labour and Industry became responsible for the welfare of…
The Infants’ Home, Ashfield Act 1924 (13/1924) has the full title ‘An Act to incorporate the members of a society which conducts the Infants’ Home, Ashfield; to promote the objects of the said society’. This Act made the Infants’ Home, Ashfield a statutory corporation (a body specially set up by Parliament) with its land protected…
The Juvenile Migrants Act 1926 was ‘An Act to provide for the care and well-being of juvenile assisted migrants; to repeal the Juvenile Migrants Apprenticeship Act, 1923; and for purposes connected there with’. It established the role of the Minister for Labour as much more central to migration. It was repealed in 1999 by the…
The Deserted Wives and Children Act of 1840 as amended by the Act of 1858 was also known as ‘An Act to amend the Act for the Maintenance of Deserted Wives and Children’. It made it harder for deserting parents to escape their obligation to maintain their children by leaving the Colony. It made provision…
The Apprentices Act 1894 [22/1894 (57 Vic. No.22)], also known as ‘An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Apprentices’ dealt with apprenticeships in the modern sense, as labour contracts between masters and those learning a trade. It set out rules for wages, penalties, and how an apprentice could enter and leave employment….
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