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A SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT made the twenty sixth day of July One thousand nine hundred and sixty-two Between THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES (in this agreement called “the State”) of the one part and THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (in this agreement called “the Commonwealth”) of the other part:

WHEREAS by the agreement referred to in this agreement as the principal agreement provision was made, inter alia, for the reception, detention and maintenance in institutions in the State of New South Wales of children committed to those institutions by Courts of the Australian Capital Territory:

AND WHEREAS by the Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act, 1941 of the State and the Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941 of the Territory the principal agreement was ratified and approved and provision was made for it to be carried into effect:

AND WHEREAS it is desirable to make provision for children admitted to government control under the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957 of the Territory to be removed to and accepted into depots or homes in the State and to be dealt with as if they were wards admitted to State control under the Child Welfare Act, 1939 of the State:

AND WHEREAS it is also desirable to vary in certain respects the provisions of the principal agreement in its application in relation to the Territory:

NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows—

This agreement shall have no force or effect and shall not be binding on either party until it is approved by the Parliament of the State and by a law of the Territory, so as to validate its execution and so as to authorise the doing or performance of such acts, matters or things as are to be, or may be, done or performed under or in pursuance of this agreement or of the principal agreement as varied by this agreement.

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In this agreement, unless the context otherwise requires—

“depot” means a depot for the temporary accommodation and maintenance of children established or deemed to have been established under section 21 of the State Act;

“home” means a home for the reception and maintenance of children established or deemed to have been established under section 21 of the State Act;

“the Ordinance” means the Child Welfare Ordinance 1957 of the Territory, as amended from time to time, and includes any Ordinance of the Territory substituted for that Ordinance;

“the principal agreement” means the agreement made the ninth day of January, 1941, between the State and the Commonwealth and set out in the Schedule to the Child Welfare (Commonwealth Agreement Ratification) Act, 1941 of the State and the Schedule to the Child Welfare Agreement Ordinance 1941 of the Territory; and