Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) A person is engaged in child-related employment if the person is engaged to perform child-related work.
(2) Child-related work is any work that involves or may potentially involve contact with children in connection with any of the following:
(a) child protection services provided by or for the Department;
(b) children's services provided under Chapter 4;
(c) an educational facility for children, including a government school established under the Education Act and a school registered under Part VII of that Act, other than a facility prescribed by regulation;
(d) juvenile detention centres;
(e) refuges or other residential facilities used by children;
(f) wards of hospitals or any other facilities for health services in which children are ordinarily patients;
(g) clubs, associations or movements (including those that are of a cultural, recreational or sporting nature) with significant child membership or involvement;
(h) religious organisations;
(i) babysitting or childminding services;
(j) fostering of children;
(k) transportation services for children;
(l) private tuition services for children;
(m) counselling or other support services for children;
(n) overnight camps for children;
(o) road crossing services for school children;
(p) any of the following services, activities or facilities that are provided or arranged for children:
(i) gym or play facilities;
(ii) photographic services;
(iii) talent or beauty competitions;
(iv) entertainment or party services;
(q) any other services, activities or facilities prescribed by regulation.
(3) A person may be engaged in child-related employment under a contract of employment or any other contract or arrangement (whether written or unwritten and whether for a reward or not).
(4) Anyone who enters into such a contract or arrangement for a person or body to perform child-related work must be regarded as someone who engages the person or body in child-related employment.
(5) Without limiting subsections (1) to (4), any of the following is a person engaged in child-related employment:
(a) anyone performing child-related work:
(i) as a minister of religion or as part of a religious vocation; or
(ii) as a student for the practical training of an educational or vocational course; or
(iii) as a voluntary worker;
(b) if a body is engaged to perform child-related work, any of the following:
(i) for a body corporate as defined in the Corporations Act 2001 – an officer of the body corporate as defined in that Act;
(ii) for any other body corporate – anyone (however described) who takes part in the management of the body corporate;
(iii) for any unincorporated body or association – a member of the committee of management (however described) of the body or association;
(c) if a partnership is engaged to perform child-related work – a partner in the partnership.