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…
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…
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