136Report required before commencement of Part 4

136 Report required before commencement of Part 4

136 Report required before commencement of Part 4

(1) Before the commencement of Part 4 of this Act, the Children’s Guardian must give to the Committee on Children and Young People a report, and copies of policies and procedures to be adopted by the Children’s Guardian, in relation to the exercise of the Children’s Guardian’s functions under this Act or another Act.

(2) The report must include information about how perceived or actual conflicts of interest associated with the exercise of the Children’s Guardian’s functions under this Act or another Act are to be minimised or removed.

(3) In this section—

Committee on Children and Young People means the Parliamentary Joint Committee constituted under section 36(1) of the Advocate for Children and Young People Act 2014.