111Person working with closely related child

111 Person working with closely related child

(1) A person engaging in child-related work (other than a person who engages in child-related work described in section 7(6)) where each child with whom the person is required to have direct contact during the work is a child who is closely related to that person is exempt from a WWC check in respect of that work.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person is closely related to a child if the person is the child's—

(a) spouse (including domestic partner as defined in the Relationships Act 2008); or

(b) parent, step-parent, mother-in-law or father‑in-law; or

(c) grandparent; or

(d) uncle or aunt; or

(e) brother or sister (including half-brother, half‑sister, step-brother, step-sister, brother‑in-law or sister-in-law).

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person who would be closely related to a child if domestic partners were married to each other is taken to be closely related to the child.