IMMIGRATION (GUARDIANSHIP OF CHILDREN) REGULATIONS
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- In force under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946 - Updated as at 31 July 1993 *1* The Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Regulations (in force under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946) as shown in this reprint comprise Statutory Rules 1946 No. 195 amended as indicated in the Tables below. Table of Statutory Rules Year and Date of Date of Application, number notification commencement saving or in Gazette transitional provisions 1946 No. 195 19 Dec 1946 30 Dec 1946 1952 No. 70 14 Aug 1952 14 Aug 1952 - 1956 No. 117 24 Dec 1956 24 Dec 1956 - 1963 No. 47 30 May 1963 30 May 1963 - 1979 No. 288 24 Dec 1979 24 Dec 1979 - 1984 No. 48 30 Mar 1984 30 Mar 1984 - 1986 No. 159 30 June 1986 1 July 1986 - 1988 No. 94 25 May 1988 25 May 1988 - Table of Amendments ad=added or inserted am=amended rep=repealed rs=repealed and substituted Provision affected How affected R. 3 am. 1952 No. 70; 1956 No. 117; 1963 No. 47; 1979 No. 288; 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159; 1988 No. 94 R. 3AA ad. 1986 No. 159 R. 3A ad. 1952 No. 70 rs. 1988 No. 94 am. 1956 No. 117; 1963 No. 47; 1979 No. 288; 1984 No. 48 R. 4 am. 1952 No. 70; 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 5 am. 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 6 am. 1984 No. 48 R. 6A ad. 1952 No. 70 am. 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 7 am. 1984 No. 48 R. 9 am. 1952 No. 70; 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 10 am. 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 11 rs. 1952 No. 70 am. 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 11A ad. 1952 No. 70 am. 1984 No. 48; 1986 No. 159 R. 12 am. 1986 No. 159 IMMIGRATION (GUARDIANSHIP OF CHILDREN) REGULATIONS - REG 1
Citation
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Immigration (Guardianship of
Children) Regulations.*1*
SEE NOTES TO FIRST ARTICLE OF THIS CHAPTER .
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Commencement
2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the thirtieth day of
December, 1946.
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Interpretation
3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
"authority", in relation to a State or Territory, means the person
performing functions in relation to the welfare of children in that State or
Territory who occupies the position approved by the Minister by notice
published in the Gazette for the purposes of this definition in relation to
that State or Territory;
"Child Welfare laws" means:
(a) in relation to the State of New South Wales - the Child Welfare Act,
1939 of that State;
(b) in relation to the State of Victoria - the Children's Welfare Acts of
that State;
(c) in relation to the State of Queensland - The State Children Acts, 1911
to 1943 of that State;
(d) in relation to the State of South Australia - the Maintenance Act,
1926-1937 of that State;
(e) in relation to the State of Western Australia - the Child Welfare Act,
1907-1927, the Child Welfare Act Amendment Act, 1936 and the Child Welfare Act
Amendment Act, 1941 of that State;
(f) in relation to the State of Tasmania - the Infants' Welfare Act, 1935 to
1940 of that State;
(g) in relation to the Australian Capital Territory - the Neglected Children
and Juvenile Offenders Act, 1905 of the State of New South Wales, in its
application to the Territory (as amended by the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance
1941), the Juvenile Offenders (Probation) Ordinance 1940 and the Juvenile
Offenders Ordinance 1941; and
(h) in relation to the Northern Territory - the State Children Acts, 1895 to
1909 of the State of South Australia, as amended in its application to the
Territory by the State Children Ordinance 1934;
and includes, in relation to any State or Territory, the regulations under the
Child Welfare laws of that State or Territory and also includes any laws
amending or in substitution for any of those laws;
"State" includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern
Territory;
"the Act" means the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946;
"welfare and care" includes custody, control, maintenance, education,
training and employment.
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Prescribed principles for the purposes of section 4AA of the Act
3AA. For the purposes of section 4AA of the Act the following principles are
prescribed as principles to be observed in considering whether or not to give
a direction under that section in relation to a person:
(a) a direction shall not be given under the section unless the relationship
between the person and the relative of the person referred to in the section
has broken down irretrievably;
(b) a direction shall not be given under the section unless the direction is
necessary to:
(i) protect the person from risk of injury or danger of impairment of
health;
(ii) protect the person from moral danger; or
(iii) enable the person to have the benefit of adequate direction and
guidance;
(c) a direction shall not be given under the section for the principal
purpose of creating, or improving, eligibility of the person, or the relative
of the person referred to in the section, for financial assistance from the
Commonwealth, a State or the Northern Territory.
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Prescribed officers for the purposes of section 4A of the Act
3A. Each officer of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory performing
functions in relation to the welfare of children in a State or Territory and
holding a delegation under subsection 5 (1) of the Act is prescribed for the
purposes of section 4A of the Act in relation to that State or Territory.
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Effect of Child Welfare laws
4. The provisions of the Child Welfare laws of any State under which
children may be committed to the custody or care of any person or authority,
or may become wards or State children, or wards or children of the State or of
any department or authority of the State, shall not apply in relation to any
non-citizen child in respect of whom the Minister has delegated his powers and
functions under section 5 of the Act to an authority of any State but, in the
case of any such child, a Minister of State of the State or of the
Commonwealth, and the authority of the State, respectively, shall have, in
relation to the child, the rights and powers exercisable by him or it in
relation to a child who, in pursuance of those laws, is committed to the
custody and care of any person or authority or becomes a ward or State child
or a ward or child of the State or of any department or authority of the
State.
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Acknowledgment by custodians
5. Where, in pursuance of the Act, the Minister, or a delegate of the
Minister, places a non-citizen child in the custody of a custodian, the
custodian shall thereupon furnish to the Minister or delegate, as the case may
be, an acknowledgment in writing of the acceptance by him of responsibility
for the welfare and care of that child.
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Duties of custodians
6. (1) A custodian shall provide for the welfare and care of every
non-citizen child, of whom he is the custodian.
(2) Without limiting the operation of the last preceding subregulation, the
duties and obligations of a custodian in relation to any such non-citizen
child shall be of the like kind to those of a person in relation to a child
who is committed to his care, or of whom he becomes the guardian or foster
parent, in pursuance of the Child Welfare laws of the State in which the
custodian is resident.
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Custodian to retain custody of children
6A. (1) The custodian of a non-citizen child shall not, without the consent
of the authority of the State in which the custodian is resident, place the
child in the care of another person.
(2) A person in whose care a non-citizen child has been placed by the
custodian of the child shall afford to the authority of the State in which he
resides, or a person authorized by that authority, all reasonable facilities
for inspecting the conditions under which the child is living and for
ascertaining whether the duties and obligations of the custodian are being
fulfilled.
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Register of Custodians
7. An authority in respect of any State shall, in relation to non-citizen
children in that State, keep a Register of Custodians in which he shall
enter:
(a) the name, address, occupation and religion of every custodian;
(b) the name of every child in the custody of each custodian;
(c) the age, sex and religion of each such child;
(d) the names, addresses and occupations of the parents or guardians of the
child in the United Kingdom;
(e) the date of arrival of the child in Australia, and the name of the ship
in which the child arrived; and
(f) such other particulars as the Minister determines.
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Notification of change of address of custodian
8. (1) If a custodian proposes to change his place of abode within the State
in which he is resident, he shall notify the proposed change to the authority
of the State in which he is registered, if practicable, at least seven days
before the change is effected.
(2) If it is not practicable for the custodian so to notify the proposed
change, he shall notify the proposed change, or the change (if it has taken
place) at the earliest practicable time.
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Consent to removal out of State or Territory
9. (1) Except with the consent of the authority of the State in which he is
registered, the custodian of a non-citizen child shall not remove or send the
child out of that State, or permit the child to go or be removed out of that
State.
(2) The authority of the State from which a non-citizen child is removed in
pursuance of any such consent shall forthwith note the removal in the Register
of Custodians and, if the child is removed to another State, forward to the
authority of that other State, for entry in the Register of Custodians kept by
him, particulars relating to the custodian and the non-citizen child.
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Notice to be given if child absconds etc.
10. If a non-citizen child:
(a) absconds or is removed from the custody of his custodian;
(b) becomes seriously ill, or meets with a serious accident; or
(c) dies;
the custodian shall immediately give notice of the fact to the authority of
the State in which the custodian is resident, and do all such further acts and
things in relation to the child as are directed by that authority.
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Child absconding etc. to another State or Territory
11. If a non-citizen child:
(a) has absconded;
(b) has been unlawfully removed from the custody of his custodian; or
(c) without the consent of the authority of the State in which his custodian
is registered, has been removed from, or has left, that State;
and is found anywhere in Australia, a member of the Police Force of a State or
Territory of the Commonwealth, or a person authorized by an authority to act
under this regulation, may apprehend the child, hold him in custody and hand
him over to a person or authority entitled to custody of the child.
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Notice where child suspected to be leaving the Commonwealth without consent
11A. The master, owner or agent of a vessel or aircraft who has reason to
suspect that a passenger or intending passenger by the vessel or aircraft for
a place outside the Commonwealth is a non-citizen child and is leaving the
State in which his custodian is registered without the consent of the
authority of that State shall, before the departure of the vessel or aircraft,
give notice in writing to that authority stating the name of the passenger or
intending passenger and his reason for suspecting that the passenger or
intending passenger is such a non-citizen child.
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Offences
12. A person shall not contravene or fail to comply with any provision of
these Regulations which is applicable to him.
Penalty: $40.
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