Western Australia: Legislation



The legislation published herein is current to the date the Act or its Amendment was published and does not necessarily reflect subsequent amendments to legislation still in force today. Western Australian legislation is produced and communicated on this website by permission of the copyright owner, the State of Western Australia, but such legislation does not purport to be the official or authorised version.



An Act to prevent the enticing away the Girls of the Aboriginal Race from School or from any Service in which they are employed 1844 (254kb) Provisions

Industrial Schools Act 1874 (771kb) Provisions

Aborigines Protection Act 1886 (756kb) Provisions

Aborigines Act 1889 (154kb) Provisions

Aborigines Act 1897 (343 kb) Provisions

State Children Act 1907 (241 kb) Provisions

Aborigines Act Amendment Act 1911 (743 kb) Provisions

State Children Act Amendment Act 1927 (667 kb) Provisions

Native Administration Amendment Act 1941 (972kb) Provisions

Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944 (708kb) Provisions

Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1952 (487 kb) Provisions

Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1958 (601 kb) Provisions

Native Welfare Act Amendment Act 1960 (635 kb) Provisions

Child Welfare Act Amendment Act 1962 (753 kb) Provisions

Community Welfare Act 1972 (1,060 kb) Provisions


Native Welfare Act 1954


Native Welfare Act 1963


Child Welfare Act 1947


Native Administration Act 1936


State Children Act Amendment Act 1919


Aborigines Act 1905


Child Welfare Amendment Act 1976