P-34.1 - Youth Protection Act

Section 131.23 Disposition versions

2022-04-26

131.23. In order to foster the cultural continuity of Indigenous children and the involvement of Indigenous communities in the decision-making and choice of measures concerning those children, an institution operating a child and youth protection centre may enter into an agreement with an Indigenous community represented by its band council or by the northern village council or with a group of communities so represented, which stipulates that such a community or such a group is to recruit and evaluate, in keeping with the general criteria determined by the Minister, persons able to take in one or more children who are members of the community and who are entrusted to them under this Act.

Such an agreement may also stipulate any other responsibility of the community or group in relation to these persons’ activities, in accordance with ministerial policy directions.

2022, c. 11, s. 60.