Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations [(1), (2) deleted]
(3) A licensee must
ensure that an enrolled child or other person is excluded from the place if
there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the child or other person is
suffering from a communicable disease.
(4) When deciding
whether to exclude from the place an enrolled child or other person who is
suspected of suffering from a communicable disease, the supervising officer
may have regard to the guidelines set out in the document entitled
Communicable disease guidelines — For teachers, child care workers,
local government authorities and medical practitioners and published by the
Department principally assisting the Minister in the administration of the
Public Health Act 2016 .
(5) A licensee must
ensure that all reasonable measures are taken to notify staff members, parents
of enrolled children and visitors to the place of an exclusion under
subregulation (3).
(6) For the purposes
of excluding an enrolled child or other person from the place under
subregulation (3), the supervising officer may —
(a)
refuse to admit the child or other person to the place; or
(b) in
the case of an unaccompanied child or a child who is already at the place,
request a parent of the child to take the child from the place as soon as
practicable; or
(c) in
the case of another person who is already at the place, request the person to
leave the place immediately.
(7) A licensee must
ensure that a parent of a child enrolled for a care session on any day is
notified on the same day of an illness or injury suffered by the child during
the care session, or of the occurrence of an accident involving the child
during the care session.
Penalty: a fine of $4 000.
[Regulation 97 amended: Gazette
6 Jan 2012 p. 22; 10 Jan 2017 p. 180;
19 Sep 2017 p. 4881.]