66Ministerial instructions

66 Ministerial instructions

(1)  The Minister is to make Ministerial instructions for the purposes of this Division.

(2)  The Ministerial instructions are to include –

(a) the general principles a person is to take into account when performing or exercising a function or power under this Division; and

(b) the matters that are likely to constitute –

(i) a risk to the health and safety of a child if attending a school; or

(ii) a child at a school posing a risk to the health and safety of other school students, teachers or other persons at the school; and

(c) the manner of assessing those risks; and

(d) the structure of strategies developed by a principal to eliminate or ameliorate those risks; and

(e) the circumstances in which the principal of a school is not required to consult with a parent of a child or a child in developing and maintaining strategies to eliminate or ameliorate those risks; and

(f) the kind of information that may be required under this Division in relation to a child by a prescribed authority, within the meaning of section 61 ; and

(g) the manner of keeping information obtained by a prescribed authority under this Division; and

(h) the disposal of information obtained by a prescribed authority under this Division.

(3)  The Ministerial instructions may include –

(a) the persons, or classes of persons, who are prescribed to be prescribed authorities for the purposes of paragraph (c) of the definition of prescribed authority in section 61(1) ; and

(b) the circumstances in which, or the reasons for which, a person or organisation may refuse to comply with a requirement made under section 61(4) ; and

(c) any other matter the Minister considers appropriate.