Victorian Numbered Acts

COURTS LEGISLATION (NEIGHBOURHOOD JUSTICE CENTRE) ACT 2006 (NO 51 OF 2006) - SECT 1

    The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to     amend the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 , the Children and Young Persons Act 1989 and the Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 to establish Neighbourhood Justice Divisions of the Magistrates' Court and the Children's Court; and

        (b)     to provide for the jurisdiction and procedure of those Divisions—

with the objectives of simplifying access to the justice system and applying therapeutic and restorative approaches in the administration of justice.