10AChildren’s Registrars

10A Children’s Registrars

10A Children’s Registrars

(1) Such Children’s Registrars as may be necessary to enable the Court to exercise its jurisdiction are to be employed under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013.

(1A) A person cannot be employed as a Children’s Registrar unless the person is an Australian lawyer.

(2) A Children’s Registrar has such functions as may be conferred or imposed on a Children’s Registrar by the rules or by or under any other Act.

(3) Despite the provisions of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 and the other provisions of this Act, the functions that may be conferred or imposed on a Children’s Registrar by the rules include—

(a) any function of the Court or a Children’s Judge under the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998, and

(b) any function of the Court or a Children’s Judge under this Act that relates to a function referred to in paragraph (a).

(4) A function referred to in subsection (3) that is exercised by a Children’s Registrar is taken to have been exercised by the Court or a Children’s Judge, as the case requires.

(5) A decision or order made or direction given by a Children’s Registrar when exercising a function referred to in subsection (3) may be set aside or varied by the Court.

(6) The conferring or imposing of a function of the Court or a Children’s Judge on a Children’s Registrar does not prevent the exercise of the function by the Court or a Children’s Judge.

s 10A: Ins 1998 No 158, Sch 1 [7]. Am 2000 No 58, Sch 1; 2009 No 13, Sch 2.2 [7]; 2015 No 15, Sch 3.9 [1]; 2025 No 61, Sch 2.11[3].