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;
Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Registration) Act 2004 56 (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
Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Registration) Act 2004 57 (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.