Western Australian Repealed Acts Western Australian Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
(1) The Department may
grant annual licences to fit and proper persons to have the care, charge or
custody of children under the age of 6 years, other than on a casual or day
time basis, and may by any such licence fix the number of children authorised
to be kept by the person therein named.
(2) The Department
may, in its discretion, revoke any licences granted under this section.
(3) If it appears to
the Director-General that any person is incapable of providing the children in
his charge with proper food or attention, or is guilty of neglecting to do so,
or that the place in respect of which he is licensed is unfit for the purpose
for which it is used, or that he has not complied with the regulations, or
that for any other reason it is not desirable that the licence granted to such
person shall continue, the Director-General may cancel that licence and remove
the children, and recover the cost of and incidental to the removal from the
licensee by action in any court of competent jurisdiction.
(4) Where the licence
of a person is cancelled pursuant to subsection (3), the person may appeal in
the prescribed manner to the Minister against the cancellation and the
Minister may reverse or confirm the cancellation, and may restore the licence
and make such other order (including an order for the return of the children)
as may be just.
[Section 112 amended by No. 73 of 1976 s. 99; No.
121 of 1984 s. 18.]