Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 806

    (1)     In this chapter:

"research project" means a research project by an entity (the "researcher") that involves—

        (a)     the director-general giving the researcher protected information (including sensitive information) about a child or young person; or

Note 1     The director-general may give protected information to a researcher for an approved project (see s 855).

Note 2     Protected information is defined in s 844. Sensitive information is defined in s 845.

        (b)     the researcher recruiting a person through the director-general to take part in the project if—

              (i)     the person is a child or young person who is the subject of a proceeding under this Act; or

              (ii)     the person is a child or young person for whom a care and protection order is in force; or

              (iii)     the person is a child or young person the subject of a voluntary report or a mandatory report; or

              (iv)     the person is a child or young person for whom the director-general has parental responsibility; or

              (v)     the person is a young detainee; or

        (c)     the researcher recruiting a person who exercises a function under this Act; or

        (d)     the researcher conducting the research project at a place of care, a detention place or an intensive therapy place.

    (2)     However, a research project does not include—

        (a)     the director-general giving the researcher protected information (including sensitive information) about a child or young person in a form that does not identify an individual or allow an individual's identity to be worked out (including a person who made a voluntary report or mandatory report); or

        (b)     an activity conducted by the director-general that would reasonably be considered to be a quality assurance exercise or an audit.