Section 142 — Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: Agreements with persons providing residential disability care

142 Agreements with persons providing residential disability care (1) This section applies to any child or young person who is a disabled person within the meaning of the Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975 . (2) Subject to this section, sections 143 to 145 , and section 147 , where every person who is a parent or guardian or person having the care of a child or young person to whom this section applies agrees to do so, those persons may, with the agreement of an operator, place the child or young person in the operator's care. (3) No agreement may be made under subsection (2) providing for the placement of any child or young person in the care of any operator for any period that exceeds 1 year; but any such agreement may from time to time be extended for any period (not exceeding 1 year in each instance) a family group conference approves. (4) Where, pursuant to an agreement made under subsection (2) , a child or young person is placed in the care of an operator, that operator may place the child or young person in the charge of any person whom the operator considers suitable to provide for the care, control, and upbringing of the child or young person. (5) Section 363 applies, with all necessary modifications, in respect of any placement made under subsection (4) as if it were a placement made under section 362 . (6) In this section, operator means a residential disability care operator within the meaning of section 58(4) of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 . Subsection (2) was amended, as from 8 January 1995, by section 26(1) Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 121) by substituting “ a controlling authority ” for “ the controlling authority of a home registered under the Disabled Persons Community Welfare Act 1975 ” . Subsection (3) was amended, as from 8 January 1995, by section 2(2) Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 121) by substituting “ controlling authority ” for “ person ” . Subsections (4) to (6) were inserted, as from 8 January 1995, by section 26(3) Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 121). Section 142 was substituted, as from 1 October 2002, by section 58(1) Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 (2001 No 93). See section 11 of that Act for transitional provisions.