 After the Commonwealth took control of the Territory, under the "Aboriginals Ordinance 1918", the Chief Protector was given total control of all Indigenous women regardless of their age, unless married to a man who was "substantially of European origin", and his approval was required for any marriage of an Indigenous woman to a non-Indigenous man.The "Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act 1869" included the earliest legislation to authorise child removal from Aboriginal parents.The Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines had been advocating such powers since 1860.