Western Australian Current Acts

RESTRAINING ORDERS ACT 1997 - SECT 50C

50C .         CEO (child welfare) to be notified before certain FVROs or VROs are made

        (1)         Before a court makes an FVRO or VRO where —

            (a)         the respondent is a child who is under 16 years of age; and

            (b)         the person seeking to be protected by the order is —

                  (i)         a parent or guardian of the child; or

                  (ii)         a person responsible for the day to day care of the child, or with whom the child habitually resides,

                the registrar is to notify the CEO (child welfare) that such an order may be made.

        (2)         If an order referred to in subsection (1) is made the CEO (child welfare) is to cause such inquiries to be made as the CEO (child welfare) considers necessary for the purpose of determining whether action should be taken to safeguard or promote the child’s wellbeing.

        [Section 50C inserted: No. 38 of 2004 s. 36; amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 123; No. 49 of 2016 s. 55.]