AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Child Welfare (Amendment) Ordinance 1987
No. 26 of 1987
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 5 June 1987.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. SCHOLES
Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957
Short title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Child Welfare  (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.1
Commencement
2.  (1)  This section and section 1 shall come into operation on the day on which this Ordinance is notified in the Gazette.
(2)  The remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall come into operation on such date as is, or such dates as respectively are, fixed by the Minister of State for Territories by notice in the Gazette.
Principal Ordinance
3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957.2
Repeal
4.  (1)  Part VII of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.
(2)  Parts III, IV, V, VA, VI, VIII and IX, and sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 108, 109, 110, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120 and 122 of the Principal Ordinance are repealed.
References to Director and Court
5.  On and after the date on which this section comes into operation:
	(a)	the references in Part XI and XIA and section 125 of the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance to the Director shall be read as references to the Director within the meaning of the Children’s Services Ordinance 1986; and
	(b)	the references in Part XII and section 112 of the Principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance to the Court shall be read as references to the Court within the meaning of the Children’s Services Ordinance 1986.

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 June 1987.
2.	No. 17, 1957, as amended by  No. 14, 1962; No. 19, 1966; No. 27, 1968; No. 17, 1969; No. 32, 1971; No. 36, 1973; No. 47, 1974; No. 17, 1975; No. 65, 1977; Nos. 8 and 25, 1979; No. 57, 1982; Nos. 9, 59, 66 and 67, 1985.