Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00628:section:12:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00628
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 15443–18488

12  Regulations
  The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing all matters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act, and in particular for:
 (aa) prescribing principles to be observed in considering whether or not to give a direction under section 4AA;
 (a) prescribing the principles to be observed in relation to the placing of non‑citizen children with custodians;
 (b) regulating the placing of such children with custodians and the transfer of such children from one custodian to another;
 (c) prescribing provisions to be observed by custodians in relation to the custody, control, welfare, care, education, training and employment of non‑citizen children;
 (d) providing that any provision of the laws of any State or Territory relating to child welfare shall not apply in relation to non‑citizen children, and making provision in lieu of any such provision;
 (da) prescribing powers, rights, duties and liabilities of or in relation to the Minister as guardian of the estate in Australia of non‑citizen children, including provisions for the receipt, disposition, management and control of property of non‑citizen children, and of property of deceased non‑citizen children from their deaths until the grant of administration;
 (db) making provision for preventing non‑citizen children from leaving Australia without the consent in writing of the Minister; and
 (f) prescribing penalties not exceeding 1 penalty unit, for any offence against the regulations.

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