AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Children’s Services Amendment Act 2000
No 10 of 2000
CONTENTS

Section
	1	Name of Act
	2	Commencement
	3	Act amended
	4	Age of criminal responsibility
	5	Power to apprehend under-age children
	6	Application to be served on parents
	7	Service of applications for review

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Children’s Services Amendment Act 2000
No 10 of 2000
	
An Act to amend the Children’s Services Act 1986
[Notified in ACT Gazette No. 14:  6 April  2000]
	The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:
1 	Name of Act
	This Act is the Children’s Services Amendment Act 2000.
2 	Commencement
	This Act commences on the day it is notified in the Gazette. 
3 	Act amended
	This Act amends the Children’s Services Act 1986.1
4 	Age of criminal responsibility
	Section 27 is amended by omitting from subsections (1) and (2) “8” and substituting “10”.
5 	Power to apprehend under-age children
	Section 28 is amended by omitting from subsection (1) “8” and substituting “10”.
6 	Application to be served on parents
	Section 79 is amended by omitting from paragraph (1) (b) “8” and substituting “10”.
7 	Service of applications for review
	Section 90 is amended by omitting from paragraph (c) “8” and substituting “10”.
	
Endnote
Act amended
1		Republished as in force on 31 May 1999. See also Acts 1999 Nos 31, 61 and 79.
[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 25 August 1999]

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