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CHILD SAFETY (PROHIBITED PERSONS) ACT 2016 - SECT 6

6—Meaning of " "child-related work and work with children

        (1)         For the purposes of this Act, the following services or activities are "child-related work":

            (a)         accommodation and residential services for children;

            (b)         services or activities provided by religious organisations;

            (c)         childcare or child-minding services;

            (d)         child protection services;

            (e)         services or activities provided in the course of the operation of clubs and associations with a significant membership of, or involvement by, children;

            (f)         coaching or tuition services for children;

            (g)         commercial services provided directly to children;

            (h)         disability services for children;

                  (i)         education services for children;

            (j)         health services for children;

            (k)         justice and detention services for children;

            (l)         transport services for children;

            (m)         any other service or activity declared by the regulations to be child-related work,

however, the following services or activities will be taken not to be child-related work:

            (n)         a service or activity referred to in subsection (1) that is provided under an arrangement for a personal or domestic purpose;

            (o)         any other service or activity in the course of which contact with children—

                  (i)         occurs incidentally; or

                  (ii)         would not reasonably be expected to occur;

            (p)         any other service or activity declared by the regulations not to be child-related work.

        (1a)         For the purposes of this Act, a service or activity will not be taken to be child-related work merely because—

            (a)         a person employs a child in the course of the service or activity; or

            (b)         a person undertakes the service or activity in the same capacity as a child to whom the service or activity relates.

        (2)         A term or phrase used in subsection (1) and defined in the regulations has the meaning as so defined.

        (3)         For the purposes of this Act, a person will be taken to "work with children if the person—

            (a)         provides a service or undertakes an activity that is child-related work in the course of their employment; or

            (b)         carries on a business in the course of which an employee works with children (whether or not the person themself works with children); or

            (c)         provides any other service or undertakes any other activity declared by the regulations to be included in the ambit of this subsection.



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