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Child Safety (Carers) Amendment Bill 2006
Child Safety (Carers) Amendment Bill
2006
Explanatory notes for Amendments to be
moved during consideration in detail by The
Honourable Mike Reynolds AM MP
Title of the Bill
Child Safety (Carers) Amendment Bill 2006
Objectives of the Amendments
The amendments are intended to:
· change the commencement date for certain provisions of the Child
Safety (Carers) Amendment Bill 2006 from 30 April to 31 May 2006;
and
· as a consequence of changing the commencement date, change the
date on which the approvals of kinship carers begin to expire for those
kinship carers who were administratively approved relative carers
prior to the commencement.
Consistency with Fundamental Legislative Principles
The amendments are consistent with the fundamental legislative principles.
Consultation
The Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel and the Department
of the Premier and Cabinet have been consulted in preparing the
amendments.
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Child Safety (Carers) Amendment Bill 2006
Notes on Provisions
Amendment 1 amends clause 2(2) of the Bill to change the commencement
date for the provisions specified in clause 2(2) from 30 April 2006 to 31
May 2006.
Amendment 2 amends clause 26 to change the dates specified in the
transitional arrangements for administratively approved kinship carers as a
consequence of the change to the commencement provision.
The amendment made by clause 26 of the Bill relates to a transitional
provision (section 66) included in the Child Safety Legislation Amendment
Act 2005. The transitional provision applies to carers who have been
administratively approved as relative carers for a child and provides that:
· from the commencement of the Child Safety Legislation Amendment
Act 2005 (which is planned to commence on 31 May 2006), the
administratively approved relative carers will become approved
kinship carers; and
· starting on 30 June 2006, two months after the planned 30 April
commencement of the Child Safety Legislation Amendment Act 2005,
the approvals of these kinship carers will expire on the second or next
anniversary of the day the original administrative approval was issued
and the carer will have to apply for renewal of the approval.
Clause 26 is amended to provide that, if an administrative approval was
given before 31 July 2004, it will expire on the anniversary of the day of its
issue first happening after 31 July 2006. This will preserve the two month
window of time between the commencement of the transitional provision
and the time at which the approvals will begin to expire. This two month
period will allow the department to work with the carers whose approvals
will be first to expire to apply for renewal of their approval after the
procedural provisions that relate to the renewal of kinship carers approvals
have commenced.
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