The Maintenance Act 1926 (Act No. 1780/1926) was also titled ‘An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to State Children, Destitute Persons, the Summary Protection of Married Women, and other matters, and to make Provision for granting Assistance to Mothers for the Maintenance of their Children, and for other purposes’. It was assented…
The Children’s Protection Act 1899 (No 730 of 62 and 63 Vic, 1899) was fully entitled: An Act relating to the Protection of Children. It began on 21 December 1899 and was repealed by the Children’s Protection Act 1936 on 1 April 1937. The Act allowed for the removal of children to an institution if…
The Aborigines (Training of Children) Act 1923 (Act No. 1565/1923) commenced on 14 November 1923. Its full title was ‘An Act to make Better Provision for the Care, Control, and Training of Aboriginal Children, for placing Aboriginal Children under the Control of the State Children’s Council, to amend the Aborigines Act, 1911, and for other…
The State Children Act 1895 (No 641 of 58 and 59 Vic, 1895) was fully titled: An Act to amend the Law relating to State Children, and for other purposes. It began on 20 December 1895, and amended the Destitute Persons Act Amendment Act of 1886. The State Children Act 1895 was amended several times,…
The Destitute Persons Act 1881 (Act no. 210/1881) was assentend to on 18 November 1881. Its full title was: An Act to repeal ‘The Destitute Persons Relief and Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act, 1872,’ and to make other provisions in lieu thereof’. The Destitute Persons Act 1881 entitled two Justices to commit a destitute or…
The Mental Health Act 1974 (Act no. 2/1974) repealed and replaced the Mental Health Act of 1962. This act was repealed and replaced in 2000 by the Mental Health Act 2000 (Act no. 16/2000). The Mental Health Act 1974 had the full title: ‘An Act relating to the Treatment and Care of mentally ill persons…
The Mental Health Act 2000 (Act no.16/2000) repealed and replaced the Mental Health Act 1974 after extensive reviews of both the Mental Health Act 1974 and Mental Health system. The Mental Health Act 2000 had the full title: ‘An Act about treating and protecting people who have mental illnesses, and for other purposes’ (Act no.16/2000)….
The Mental Health Act of 1962 repealed and replaced the Mental Hygiene Act 1938. The new legislation focused on provision of psychiatric care alongside other health services. In 1974 this act was itself replaced by the Mental Health Act 1974.
This act with the full title “An Act to establish the Children Services Tribunal, to provide for the review by the tribunal of certain decisions about services for children, and for other purposes” (Act no.59/2000) established the Children Services Tribunal. This act was repealed by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (No.23) on…
This act with the full title “An Act to refer to the Commonwealth Parliament certain matters relating to children” (Act no.37/1990) acknowledged the authority of the Australian Commonwealth Government to apply legislation to the State of Queensland in relation to child custody, access to children, child maintenance payments, child adoption and other matters relating to…
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