New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) ACT 1998 - SECT 87

87 Making of orders that have a significant impact on persons

(1) The Children's Court must not make an order that has a significant impact on a person who is not a party to proceedings before the Children's Court unless the person has been given an opportunity to be heard on the matter of significant impact.

(2) If the impact of the order is on a group of persons, such as a family, not all members of the group are to be given an opportunity to be heard but only a representative of the group approved by the Children's Court.

(2A) For subsection (2), if the group affected is an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander family or community, the representative or representatives of the group approved by the Court may be a member of a relevant Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander organisation or entity for the child or young person.

(3) The opportunity to be heard afforded by this section does not give the person who is heard the status or rights of a party to the proceedings.