Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 29

29 .         Provisional protection and care, meaning and effect of

        (1)         A reference in this Part to a child being in, taken into, or placed in, provisional protection and care is a reference to the child being in, taken into, or placed in, the care of the CEO.

        (2)         If a child is in provisional protection and care, the CEO, subject to any interim order in respect of the child, has responsibility for the day-to-day care, welfare and development of the child to the exclusion of any other person.

        (3A)         Without limiting subsection (2), the responsibility conferred by that subsection includes responsibility for making decisions about any medical or dental examination, treatment or procedure in respect of the child.

        (3)         A child ceases to be in provisional protection and care if —

            (a)         the child is returned to or placed in the care of a person under section 38(2) or (3)(b); or

            (b)         the Court makes an interim order under section 133(2)(a) that the child be returned to or placed with a parent of the child; or

            (c)         the Court makes an interim order under section 133(2)(c); or

            (d)         the Court makes a protection order in respect of the child or refuses to make such an order.

        [Section 29 amended by No. 49 of 2010 s. 54.]