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Children, Youth and Families Act 2005
246Secretary may apply for therapeutic treatment order
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246 Secretary may apply for therapeutic treatment order
(1) If the Secretary is satisfied on reasonable grounds that a child is in need of therapeutic treatment, the Secretary may by notice direct—
(a) the child to appear; and
(b) the child's parent to produce the child—
before the Court for the hearing of a therapeutic treatment application.
(2) A notice under subsection (1) must—
S. 246(2)(a) amended by No. 26/2023 s. 38.
(b) set out the grounds on which the Secretary intends to make a therapeutic treatment application; and