11Exemptions for persons engaged in child-related activity

11 Exemptions for persons engaged in child-related activity

For the purposes of section 15(2)(e) of the Act, a person is not required to be registered to engage in a child-related activity in the following circumstances:

(a) [Regulation 11 Amended by S.R. 2024, No. 98, Applied:01 Apr 2025] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(b) if the person is a close relative of each child who is taking part in the activity and with whom the person has contact;

(c) if the person is engaged in the activity as a volunteer and –

(i) is a close relative of a child taking part, or who normally takes part, in the activity; and

(ii) a close relative of each other child taking part in the activity is engaged, or is expected to be engaged, in the activity;

(d) if the person is engaged in the activity in the same capacity as the child with whom the person has contact;

(e) if the person is an employer or supervisor of a child, unless the child is engaged in a regulated activity;

(f) if the person is engaged in the activity as a correctional officer, within the meaning of the Corrections Act 1997 ;

(g) if the person is engaged in the activity and the only contact that the person has with a child is working with a record of the child;

(h) [Regulation 11 Amended by S.R. 2024, No. 98, Applied:01 Apr 2025] .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  

(i) if the person is engaged in the activity for a Tasmanian public authority or an agency of the Commonwealth (including a body, corporate or unincorporate, established under an Act of the Commonwealth) and the only contact that the person has with a child is providing a service to the child at a public counter or shopfront or by telephone, unless the person has more than incidental contact with the child;

(j) if the person is engaged in the activity and the only contact that the person has with a child is providing information to, or receiving information from, the child by telephone, unless the person has more than incidental contact with the child.