Child Care (Amendment) Act 2022

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Number 21 of 2022


CHILD CARE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022


CONTENTS

Section

1. Definition

2. Repeals

3. Amendment of section 2 of Principal Act

4. Best interests of child to be paramount

5. Views of child

6. Amendment of section 29 of Principal Act

7. Guardians ad litem - insertion of Part VA in Principal Act

8. Consequential amendments to Principal Act

9. Amendment of section 71 of Children Act 2001

10. Amendment of section 25 of Mental Health Act 2001

11. Amendment of Schedule 1 to National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012

12. Amendment of Schedule 2 to Children First Act 2015

13. Short title, collective citation and commencement


Acts Referred to

Child Care (Amendment) Act 2011 (No. 19)

Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)

Child Care Acts 1991 to 2015

Children Act 2001 (No. 24)

Children First Act 2015 (No. 36)

Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7)

Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7)

Mental Health Act 2001 (No. 25)

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 (No. 47)

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Number 21 of 2022


CHILD CARE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2022


An Act to amend and extend the law in relation to guardians ad litem appointed under the Child Care Act 1991 ; to amend section 29 of the Child Care Act 1991 to allow officers of the Minister to attend, for specific purposes, proceedings heard otherwise than in public; and for those and other purposes to amend the Child Care Act 1991 , the Children Act 2001 , the Mental Health Act 2001 , the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 and the Children First Act 2015 ; to repeal certain provisions of the Child Care (Amendment) Act 2011 ; and to provide for related matters.

[19th July, 2022]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: