27Child legal service – regulated activity

27 Child legal service – regulated activity

(1)  In this regulation –

child legal service means an activity conducted specifically for, or a service provided specifically to, a child by a separate representative or an independent children's lawyer;

independent children's lawyer means an Australian legal practitioner acting as an independent lawyer to represent a child's interests pursuant to an order made under section 68L of the Family Law Act 1975 of the Commonwealth;

separate representative, in relation to a child, means an Australian legal practitioner acting as a separate representative of the child pursuant to an order made under section 59 of the Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1997 .

(2)  A child legal service is prescribed to be a regulated activity for the purposes of the definition of regulated activity in section 3 of the Act.