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Aborigines Protection (Amendment) Act 1943
The Board may issue (and cancel) exemption certificates whereby an Aboriginal person ‘shall be deemed not to be an aborigine or a person apparently having an admixture of aboriginal blood’. The Board may board-out children admitted to its control. Once an Aboriginal child has attained the minimum school leaving age the child is to be apprenticed or placed in employment. The Board is the authority in relation to children admitted to its control with power over removal and transfer of wards, apprenticing wards and approving custody of wards.
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