Aborigines Protection Board empowered to remove and apprentice Indigenous children

The Aborigines Protection Board is empowered to remove and apprentice Indigenous children without a court hearing. From 1915 to 1939 the NSW Aborigines Protection Board, under the Aborigines Protection Act (1915, 1918, 1936) (NSW) is entitled to forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families without parental or court consent. This 1915 amendment to the Act also abolishes the minimum age at which Indigenous children can be apprenticed. Indigenous Australians' movement between reserves is strictly controlled and families are threatened with the removal of their children if they do not comply with the Board's orders.