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 It was repealed in 1999 by the…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….
The Child Welfare (Amendment) Act 1924 (69/1924) was ‘An Act to amend the provisions of the Child Welfare Act, 1923, relating to the adoption of children’. This administrative amendment clarified the rules about who could apply for adoption orders to a Court, and how the documentation had to be filled out. It was repealed by…
The Apprentices Act 1901 [41/1901] was an Act to consolidate the previous Colonial New South Wales laws relating to apprenticeship. It was amended by the Apprentices (Amendment) Act 1915 (which made provision for apprentices enlisting in the armed services). It was further amended by the Statute Law Revision Act 1937 and the Maintenance Act 1964….
The Infants’ Custody Act 1854 [1/1854 (18 Vic. No.1)] allowed mothers to claim custody of children under the age of seven who had been in the care of their fathers, upon the father’s death. It did not apply, though, to women who had ‘criminal conversation’, or adultery, findings against them. It was repealed by the…
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