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592CMeaning of *relevant historical care and protection order*
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592C Meaning of *relevant historical care and protection order*
(1) A ***relevant*** ***historical care and protection order***, in relation to a person, means an order, however expressed or described, in the nature of an order made by a court as a result of an application for an order for the care and protection of the person when the person was a child.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a) an order of the kind described in that subsection includes, but is not limited to, an order of a kind described in that subsection under any of the following—
(i) the **Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864**;
(ii) An Act to provide for the Protection and Management of Aboriginal Natives of Victoria (no. CCCXLIX (349) also known as the **Aborigines Protection Act 1869**;
(iii) the **Children's Court Act 1986**;
(iv) the **Children's Welfare Act 1928**;
(v) the **Community Welfare Services Act 1970**;
(vi) the **Children and Young Persons Act 1989**;
(vii) a prescribed Act; and
(b) a ***relevant*** ***historical care and protection order*** does not include an order, however expressed or described, for the care and protection of the person when the person was a child, or an order in relation to the welfare of the person when the person was a child, if—
(i) the child was found guilty of a criminal offence by the court; and
(ii) the order was made as part of the sentence imposed by the court for that offence.
S. 592D inserted by No. 42/2018 s. 35.