New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN'S COURT ACT 1987 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:

"Chief Magistrate" means the person appointed under section 14 (1) of the Local Court Act 2007 to be the Chief Magistrate of the Local Court.

"Children's Magistrate" means a person appointed under section 7 (1) to be a Children's Magistrate.

"Children's Registrar" means a person employed as a Children's Registrar as referred to in section 10A.

"President" means the person appointed under section 6A as the President of the Children's Court.

"rule" means a rule made under this Act.

"the Court" means the Children's Court of New South Wales constituted by this Act.

(2) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.