20Exemption from Act for specified workers and employers

20 Exemption from Act for specified workers and employers

20 Exemption from Act for specified workers and employers

(1) The following workers engaged in child-related work (and employers of those workers in that capacity) are exempt from the Act (other than section 7 of the Act)—

(a) a worker (other than a school cleaner) who provides administrative, clerical or maintenance services, or other ancillary services, if the work does not ordinarily involve contact with children for extended periods,

(b) a worker who works for a period of not more than a total of 5 working days in a calendar year, if the work involves minimal direct contact with children or is supervised when children are present,

(c) a worker who carries out the work in the course of an informal domestic arrangement that is not carried out on a professional or commercial basis,

(d) a worker whose work involves direct contact only with children who are close relatives of the worker, other than a worker who carries out the work in the capacity of an authorised carer,

(e) a parent, or close relative, of a child who attends a school, an education and care service or other educational institution when volunteering at or for activities of the school, service or institution,

(f) a parent, or close relative, of a child when volunteering in connection with a team, program or other activity of which the child is a member or in which the child usually participates,

(g) a worker who is under the age of 18 years,

(h) a police officer or a member of the Australian Federal Police when working in his or her capacity as a police officer,

(i) a worker who is a health practitioner in private practice, if the provision of services by the practitioner in the course of that practice does not ordinarily involve treatment of children without one or more other adults present,

(j) a co-worker or work supervisor of a child, other than a worker engaged in work referred to in clause 12(2) or 16AA,

(k) a home care worker who holds a police certificate that is current for the purposes of the Accountability Principles 1998 made under the Aged Care Act 1997 of the Commonwealth, if the work is home care work and the clients are not primarily children,