Victorian Current Acts

CHILD EMPLOYMENT ACT 2003 - SECT 12A

    (1)     A person who employs a child in entertainment must take reasonable steps to ensure that, during the course of the employment, the child is not subjected to any behaviour—

        (a)     that unnecessarily socially isolates the child; or

        (b)     that is likely to intimidate, threaten, frighten or humiliate the child.

Penalty:     1200 penalty units in the case of a body corporate;

    240 penalty units in any other case.

    (2)     For the purposes of subsection (1), a child is not unnecessarily socially isolated if isolation is required to perform the work for which the child has been engaged.

    (3)     A person who employs a child in entertainment must ensure that, during the course of the child's employment, the child is not—

        (a)     made distressed for the purposes of depicting an emotional reaction; or

        (b)     present while the genital region or buttocks of another person, or the breast area of a person who is female, are exposed; or

        (c)     otherwise exposed to acts or circumstances that depict or deal with adult themes, including nudity, sex, cruelty, violence or drug misuse.

Penalty:     1200 penalty units in the case of a body corporate;

    240 penalty units in any other case.

Pt 2 Div. 2 (Heading) amended by No. 27/2022 s. 52.

Division 2—Licences for children to engage in employment

S. 13
substituted by No. 26/2010 s. 11, amended by No. 14/2021 s. 4, substituted by No. 27/2022 s. 53.