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Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Registration) Act 2004
91Child-related employment
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91 Child-related employment
(1) For this Part, child-related employment is employment involving
contact with a child and includes employment in connection with
any of the following:
(a) child protection services;
(b) child care centres or pre-schools;
(c) educational institutions for children;
(d) youth detention centres;
(e) refuges or other residential facilities used by children;
(f) wards of public or private hospitals in which children are
ordinarily patients;
(g) clubs, associations or movements (including of a cultural,
recreational or sporting nature) with significant child
membership or involvement;
(h) religious organisations;
(i) baby sitting or child minding services;
(j) fostering children;
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(k) providing taxi services for the transport of children;
(l) private tuition services of any kind for children;
(m) counselling or other support services for children;
(n) overnight camps regardless of the type of accommodation or
of how many children are involved;
(o) school crossing services provided to assist children to cross
roads on their way to or from school.
(2) For this Part, a person is engaged in child-related employment if he
or she is:
(a) an officer of a body corporate that is engaged in child-related
employment; or
(b) a member of the committee of management of an
unincorporated body or association that is engaged in child-
related employment; or
(c) a member of a partnership that is engaged in child-related
employment.
(3) In this section:
contact means any form of contact between a person and a child
and includes:
(a) any form of physical contact; and
(b) any form of oral communication, whether face to face or by
telephone; and
(c) any form of written communication, including electronic
communication.
educational institutions for children includes any government
school established under the Education Act 2015 and any school
registered under Part 7 of that Act but does not include an
educational facility that is specified in the Regulations.
employment means performance of work:
(a) under a contract of employment or a contract for services
(whether written or unwritten); or
(b) as a minister of religion or as part of the duties of a religious
vocation; or
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(c) as a volunteer (including the performance of unpaid
community work).
officer:
(a) in relation to a body corporate that is a corporation within the
meaning of the Corporations Act 2001, has the same meaning
as in section 9 of that Act; and
(b) in relation to any other body corporate, means any person (by
whatever name called) who is concerned or takes part in the
management of the body corporate.