Queensland Consolidated Acts

CORRECTIVE SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 30

(1) The chief executive may grant an application to have a child accommodated with a prisoner in a corrective services facility if—

(a) the chief executive decides there is suitable accommodation in the facility for the child; and

(b) either—

(i) the child is not eligible to start primary school; or

(ii) each of the following apply—

(A) the child is eligible to start primary school;

(B) the prisoner is in a community corrections centre;

(C) the application is only for periods during school holidays or on weekends; and

(c) the child is immunised in accordance with the recommendations of the department in which the Health Act 1937 is administered; and

(d) the child is not subject to a court order requiring the child to live with someone else; and

(e) for a child in care—the child protection chief executive has consented to the child being accommodated with the prisoner; and

(f) the chief executive is satisfied it is in the child's best interests.

(2) In deciding what is in the child's best interests, the chief executive may consider each of the following—

(a) the child's—

(i) age and sex; and

(ii) cultural background; and

(iii) mental and physical health;

(b) the emotional ties between the child and his or her parents;

(c) the child's established living pattern, including, for example, the pattern of the child's home, school, community and religious life;

(d) if the chief executive is satisfied the child is able to express a view, the child's wishes.