The State Children Act Amendment Act (12 Geo. V No 14) had the long title: An Act to amend the State Children Act, 1907-1919. It was assented to on 15 November 1921.
The State Children Act Amendment Act 1915 (Act no. 1915/023 (5 Geo. V No.50)) was fully titled ‘An Act to amend the State Children Act 1907’. The Act commenced on 18 February 1915.
The Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1969 (Act no. 085/1969) was assented to on 17 November 1969 and commenced on 1 February 1970. Its long title was ‘An Act to amend the Child Welfare Act, 1947-1968’. The Principal Act (Child Welfare Act 1947) was repealed on 1 March 2006. The Child Welfare Act Amendment Act…
The Mental Health Act Amendment Act 1976 (032 of 1976) created the ability for the government to license, fund and regulate ‘private psychiatric hostels’, ‘approved private hostels’, ‘day activity centres’ and ‘sheltered workshops’. The amendments imposed stricter conditions on voluntary organisations but also stimulated the growth of hostels for people with intellectual disabilities. Private hostel…
The Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1965 amended the Child Welfare Act 1947. The amendments had two key impacts on out of home care. Children were committed to the ‘care of the Department’ (s.32) or the ‘custody of the Director’ (s.4) rather than directed to placement by the Children’s Court in consultation with the Child…
The Education Act Amendment Act 1962 (037 of 1962 (11 Eliz. II No. 37)) clarified the role of the Child Welfare Department in dealing with children whose behaviour at school, or truancy, was deemed to need a child welfare or youth justice intervention. The Education Act Amendment Act 1962 came into effect on 9 November…
The Health Act Amendment Act 1918 (9 Geo. V No. 7) was concerned with the spread of venereal disease and some amendments (section 242j) had an impact on young people in care. It was now compulsory for medical officers attached to industrial schools to examine residents who were suspected of having venereal disease (a power…
The Acts Amendment (Sexual Offences) Act 1992 (014 of 1992) updated the Criminal Code to include or redefine a number of sexual offences against children and young people, and to adults who were ‘incapable’ of giving consent because of mental or intellectual disability. The Acts Amendment (Sexual Offences) Act 1992 made it illegal to show…
The Acts Amendment (Evidence of Children and Others) Act 1992 (036 of 1992) helped make the evidence of children more ‘credible’ or ‘believable’. It enabled unsworn evidence to be given by a child under 12 years of age, and removed the Judge’s need to ‘warn’ a jury that a child’s evidence might be unreliable. The…
The Education Act Amendment Act 1952 (030 of 1952 (1 Eliz. II No. 30)) extended the provisions for the commitment of children with a disability to an institution. The Act now applied to children who were ‘blind, deaf, mute, cerebrally palsied or mentally defective.’ Prior to the Education Act Amendment Act 1952, parents whose child…
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