293CInformation sharing authorities

293C Information sharing authorities (1) For this Part, each of the following is an information sharing authority: (b) a person who, as the Chief Executive Officer of an Agency or a public sector employee, is acting under a law of the Territory in relation to a child; (c) a carer who is acting under this Act in relation to a child; (d) an approved provider of an education and care service Law (NT) who provides, or is required to provide, services in relation to a child; (e) a person in charge of an organisation that receives funding from the Commonwealth or Territory to provide a service, or perform a function, for or in connection with children; (f) a person in charge of an organisation that receives funding from the Territory under an agreement to provide drug or alcohol treatment; (g) a person employed or engaged (for a fee) by an organisation mentioned in paragraph (e) or (f) in relation to providing the service or treatment, or performing the function, mentioned in that paragraph; (h) the principal, as defined in section 5 of the Education Act 2015, of: (i) a government school declared under that Act; or (ii) a non-government school registered under that Act; Care and Protection of Children Act 2007 143 (i) a teacher registered under the Teacher Registration (Northern Territory) Act 2004; (j) a person in charge of: (i) a hospital as defined in section 5 of the Medical Services Act 1982; or (ii) a private hospital as defined in section 4A of the Private Hospitals Act 1981; (k) a person in charge of an approved treatment facility as defined in section 4 of the Mental Health and Related Services Act 1998; (l) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise a health profession (other than as a student); (m) a provider of services as defined in section 2(1) of the Disability Services Act 1993; (n) a lawyer; (o) a police officer; (p) the person in charge of an organisation approved under subsection (1A). (1A) The CEO may, by Gazette notice, approve an organisation that provides a service or performs a function for or in connection with children if the CEO is satisfied that: (a) it is appropriate for the person in charge of the organisation to give and receive information under this Part; and (b) the organisation has the capacity to meet the obligations of an information sharing authority under this Part. (2) The regulations may specify that a person who would otherwise be an information sharing authority under subsection (1) is not an information sharing authority.