Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ACT 2008 - SECT 808

    (1)     If a child or young person is to take part in a research project, the research standards must—

        (a)     ensure that the safety and wellbeing of the child or young person is paramount; and

        (b)     appropriately protect the child's or young person's health, safety and personal and social development; and

        (c)     allow the child or young person to stop taking part in the project at any time; and

        (d)     ensure that the child's or young person's identity as a participant in the project is protected; and

        (e)     comply with anything else prescribed by regulation.

Note     The Minister may make research standards under s 887.

    (2)     If the director-general is to give a researcher protected information about a child or young person for a research project, the research standards must ensure that the secrecy of the information is protected.