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Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998
106AAdmissibility of certain other evidence
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#### 106A Admissibility of certain other evidence
106A Admissibility of certain other evidence
> > (1) The Children’s Court must admit in proceedings before it any evidence adduced that a parent or primary care-giver of a child or young person the subject of a care application—
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> > > (a) is a person—
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> > > > (i) from whose care and protection a child or young person was previously removed by a court under this Act or the [Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987](/view/html/repealed/current/act-1987-054), or by a court of another jurisdiction under an Act of that jurisdiction, and
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> > > > (ii) to whose care and protection the child or young person has not been restored, or
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> > > (b) is a person who has been named or otherwise identified by the coroner or a police officer (whether by use of the term “person of interest” or otherwise) as a person who may have been involved in causing a reviewable death of a child or young person.
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> > (2) Evidence adduced under subsection (1)(b) is prima facie evidence that the child or young person the subject of the care application is in need of care and protection.
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> > (3) A parent or primary care-giver in relation to whom evidence referred to in subsection (1)(b) has been adduced may rebut the prima facie evidence referred to in subsection (2) by satisfying the Children’s Court that, on the balance of probabilities, the parent or primary care-giver was not involved in causing the relevant reviewable death of the child or young person.
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> > (4) This section has effect despite section 93 and despite anything to the contrary in the [Evidence Act 1995](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1995-025).
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> > (5) In this section, reviewable death of a child or young person means a death of a child or young person that is reviewable by the Ombudsman under Part 6 of the [Community Services (Complaints, Reviews and Monitoring) Act 1993](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1993-002).
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> **s 106A:** Ins 2006 No 95, Sch 1 \[3\]. Am 2007 No 27, Sch 2.8; 2022 No 67, Sch 1\[20\] \[21\].