Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

CHILDREN'S SERVICES ACT 1986 - SECT 169

(1)     Subject to subsection (2), a person other than a person specified in this section is not entitled to be present at the hearing of proceedings in the court:

        (a)     an officer of the court;

        (b)     a party to the proceedings, the legal practitioner by whom the party is represented or an employee of the legal practitioner;

        (c)     a parent or other person having the care of a child in respect of whom the proceedings are taken or any other person whom the court admits as a representative of the child;

        (d)     the director or a person authorised by the director for the purposes of this section;

        (e)     the community advocate or a person authorised by the community advocate for the purposes of this section;

        (g)     a person who has, or a representative of a body, authority or agency which has, furnished a report under section 162;

        (h)     a person attending for the purpose of preparing a news report of the proceedings and authorised by his or her employer so to attend.

(2)     Nothing in subsection (1) applies to or in relation to a person required or permitted to be present by this Act or by the court.