The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1963 was an ‘An Act to remove certain restrictions imposed by the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909-1943, upon aborigines; for this and other purposes to amend the said Act’. It repealed some of the more restrictive elements of the Aborigines Protection Act. Magistrates could no longer send ‘mixed blood’ Aboriginal people…
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1940 was ‘An Act to provide for the dissolution of The Board for the Protection of Aborigines and for the constitution of an Aborigines Welfare Board; to amend the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909-1936, in certain respects’. It replaced the Aborigines Protection Board with the Aborigines Welfare Board. This was a…
The Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1936 (32/1936) was ‘An Act to make further provisions as to the protection and care of aborigines; to amend the Aborigines Protection Act, 1909, and certain other Acts, in certain respects’. It further extended the powers of the State Government over Aboriginal people – in effect, it treated all Aboriginal…
The Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 was a significant increase in the powers of the Aborigines Protection Board. It allowed the Board to assume parental rights over Aboriginal children and to remove children ‘of any aborigine’ without Court orders, or parental consent, and treat children ‘absconding’ from care as ‘neglected’ under the Neglected Children and…
The Social Welfare (Amendment) Act 1975 (No. 8821) amended the Social Welfare Act 1970. It was passed on 9 December 1975 and commenced in stages from January 1976. The Social Welfare Act 1970 was repealed by Statue Law Revision (Repeals) Act 1982 (No.9863) on 5 January1983.
The Status of Children (Amendment) Act 1984 (No. 10069) commenced on 1 August 1984. The long title of the act is ‘An Act relating to the status of persons conceived by certain means, to amend the Status of Children Act 1974 and for other purposes.’ It was repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act (No.11/1995)…
The Maintenance (Amendment) Act 1953 (No. 5728) was passed on 8 December 1953 and commenced on 1 February 1954. Its long title is ‘An Act to amend the Maintenance Acts and for other purposes.’
The Children’s Welfare (Amendment) Act 1955 (No. 5876) amends the Children’s Welfare Act 1954. It came into operation on 1 September 1955 and being part of the Children’s Welfare Act 1954, it was repealed on 1 April 1959 by the Children’s Welfare Act 1958.
The Social Welfare (Amendment) Act 1975 (No. 8701) was an amendment to ‘Part IV of the Social Welfare Act 1970, the Social Welfare (Amendment) Act 1973, the Justices Act 1958, and the Magistrates’ Court Act 1971′ (long title of Act No. 8701). It was passed on 16 May 1975 and commenced in stages from 1…
The Adoption of Children (Amendment) Act 1953 (No. 5666) commenced on 1 September 1953. It amends the Adoption of Children Act 1928.
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