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Oranga Tamariki Act 1989

Youth justice - Prosecution of children and young persons

261: Family group conference may make decisions, recommendations, and plans relating to care or protection or well-being of child or young person

You could also call this:

"A family group conference can make plans to keep a child or young person safe and well."

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If you are part of a family group conference, you can make decisions about the care or protection of a child or young person. You can do this if you have received information and advice under section 255(1). You can make plans that you think are necessary for the child or young person's well-being.

When you make a decision or plan, it is like you made it under section 29. The rules in sections 29A to 38 will apply to your decision or plan.

If you are at a family group conference, it will be treated like a conference under Part 2 for some purposes.

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Part 4Youth justice
Prosecution of children and young persons

261Family group conference may make decisions, recommendations, and plans relating to care or protection or well-being of child or young person

  1. If a family group conference convened under this Part considers matters relating to the care or protection or well-being of a child or young person for whom the conference is held, the family group conference may, if it has received information and advice on care or protection matters under section 255(1), make or formulate the decisions, recommendations, and plans that it considers necessary or desirable in relation to the care or protection or well-being of the child or young person.

  2. Every such decision, recommendation, or plan shall be deemed to have been made or formulated pursuant to section 29, and the provisions of sections 29A to 38 shall apply, so far as applicable and with all necessary modifications, with respect to the decision, recommendation, or plan.

  3. Every family group conference to which this section applies shall be deemed, for the purposes of Parts 2 and 3, to be a family group conference convened pursuant to Part 2.

Notes
  • Section 261 heading: amended, on , by section 37(1) of the Oranga Tamariki Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 81).
  • Section 261(1): replaced, on , by section 37(2) of the Oranga Tamariki Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 81).
  • Section 261(2): amended, on , by section 32 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Vulnerable Children) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 41).