Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 2008 - SECT 158

158 Working with children authority required for child-related duties

(1) The chief executive of a department must ensure a person does not perform child-related duties in the department unless—

(a) the person holds a working with children authority; or

(b) if the person is a police officer or registered teacher—the person has made a working with children check (exemption) application under the Working with Children Act.

(2) Subsection (1) applies even if the person is a public service employee at the time the chief executive proposes to engage the person to perform the child-related duties.

(3) In this section—

"registered teacher" see the Working with Children Act , schedule 7 .