Children and Young People Act 2008
415Emergency action—return of child or young person
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415 Emergency action—return of child or young person care responsibility for a child or young person under this division and, at the end of the period for which the director-general or police officer may keep responsibility— (a) none of the following orders have been made for the child or young person: (i) an appraisal order with a temporary parental responsibility provision; (ii) an interim care and protection order with a parental responsibility provision; (iii) a care and protection order with a parental responsibility provision; (iv) an interim intensive therapy order;
(v) an intensive therapy order; and (b) the director-general or police officer still has daily care responsibility for the child or young person. (2) The director-general or police officer must deliver the child or young person into the care of 1 of the following people: (a) a parent of the child or young person who has parental (b) someone else who has daily care responsibility, or long-term (c) a former caregiver of the child or young person.
Emergency action release orders Part 13.2