 In 1936 Sections 8 and 12 of the new "Native Administration Act" the Chief Protector's guardianship powers were increased still further by a new definition of "native child" to mean any child with any Aboriginal descent, and further widened the scope of the Chief Protector's guardianship and therefore jurisdiction over all Aboriginal people in Western Australia.A new "Native Welfare Act" in 1954 did nothing to limit these removal powers under the 1936 Act, which continued unabated.However amendments to the "Native Welfare Act" in 1963 repealed all previous legislation and abolished the Chief Protector's powers to remove children of Aboriginal descent from their biological parents.