Working with Children Check Act 2000
sch.1-sec.14Care of children under Child Protection Act 1999
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sch.1-sec.14 Care of children under Child Protection Act 1999
Employment is regulated employment if the usual functions of the employment include, or are likely to include, providing care for a child as an approved carer, other than a provisionally approved carer. If a person provides, or is likely to provide, care for a child in the person’s capacity as an approved carer, other than a provisionally approved carer, each adult member of the person’s household is taken to be a volunteer who is engaged in regulated employment. Employment is regulated employment if the usual functions of the employment— are carried out, or likely to be carried out, inside a licensed residential facility; or include responsibility for directly managing a licensed care service; or include performing a risk-assessed role for a licensed care service. sch 1 s 14 (prev sch 1 s 6G) ins 2006 No. 17 s 56 (3) renum 2010 No. 5 s 65 (28) amd 2022 No. 7 s 129 (sch.1-sec.14-ssec.1) Employment is regulated employment if the usual functions of the employment include, or are likely to include, providing care for a child as an approved carer, other than a provisionally approved carer. (sch.1-sec.14-ssec.2) If a person provides, or is likely to provide, care for a child in the person’s capacity as an approved carer, other than a provisionally approved carer, each adult member of the person’s household is taken to be a volunteer who is engaged in regulated employment. (sch.1-sec.14-ssec.3) Employment is regulated employment if the usual functions of the employment— are carried out, or likely to be carried out, inside a licensed residential facility; or include responsibility for directly managing a licensed care service; or include performing a risk-assessed role for a licensed care service.
- (a) are carried out, or likely to be carried out, inside a licensed residential facility; or
- (b) include responsibility for directly managing a licensed care service; or
- (c) include performing a risk-assessed role for a licensed care service.