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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 1999 (NO. 63 OF 1999) - SECT 246

Specific issues orders

(1)     On application under this Part, the court may make any specific issues order it considers appropriate in relation to a child or young person if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that the child or young person is in need of care and protection or would be in need if an order were not made.

(2)     A specific issues order is an order relating to the care and protection of a child or young person (other than an assessment order).

(3)     Without limiting subsection (2), the specific issues orders that may be made in relation to a child or young person include the following:

        (a)     an order relating to the day-to-day or long-term care, welfare or development of the child or young person;

        (b)     an order requiring or authorising the chief executive to require a named person or Territory authority to give the chief executive oral or written information relating to the care, protection, welfare or development of a child or young person;

        (c)     an order directing that a named person not live at the same premises as the child or young person (including that someone who lives in the same premises as the child or young person stop or refrain from living at those premises);

        (d)     an order directing that a party to the application, or anyone else, have no contact with the child or young person;

        (e)     an order that the child or young person submit to the jurisdiction of the Mental Health Tribunal to allow the tribunal—

              (i)     to decide whether the child or young person is mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill; and

              (ii)     if the tribunal decides that the child or young person is mentally dysfunctional or mentally ill—to make recommendations to the court as to how the child or young person should be dealt with;

        (f)     a supervision order;

        (g)     an order requiring a named person to do a stated thing, refrain from doing a stated thing or observe a stated condition;

        (h)     such ancillary or other orders as the court thinks fit.



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