Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES ACT 2013 - SECT 117

117 Certain unqualified person may fulfil requirement for qualified person

(1) A reference in this Act to a person with a qualification includes a person who does not have a qualification if, in the circumstances prescribed under a regulation—

(a) the person is an adult who is engaged in a position for which the qualification is prescribed and has not been engaged in the position for more than the prescribed time; or

(b) the person is enrolled in a course that leads to the qualification.

(2) For subsection (1) (a) , in deciding how long a person has been engaged in a position, the engagement is taken to continue during any break of less than 30 days.

(3) In this section—

"position" means a position in a QEC approved service.

"prescribed time" means the time, not more than 6 months, prescribed under a regulation.