16RSocial Services Regulator may interview child

16R Social Services Regulator may interview child

S. 16R(1) amended by No. 58/2025 s. 55(Sch. 1 item 1.28).

(1) The Social Services Regulator may interview—

(a) a child in relation to whom an employee of an entity is alleged to have committed reportable conduct or misconduct that may involve reportable conduct; or

(b) a child who is a witness to reportable conduct or misconduct that may involve reportable conduct.

S. 16R(2) amended by No. 58/2025 s. 55(Sch. 1 item 1.28).

(2) The Social Services Regulator may engage a person with appropriate qualifications, training or experience in interviewing child victims of abuse to conduct an interview on its behalf under subsection (1).

(3) Before interviewing a child, the interviewer must consider, and take all reasonable steps to mitigate, any negative effect that the interview may have on the child.

S. 16R(4) amended by No. 58/2025 s. 55(Sch. 1 item 1.28).

(4) Without limiting subsection (3), the Social Services Regulator must consider whether the child's primary family carer (within the meaning of the Commission for Children and Young People Act 2012) should be present during the interview.

S. 16S (Heading) amended by No. 58/2025 s. 55(Sch. 1 item 1.29).

S. 16S inserted by No. 4/2017 s. 6.