Queensland Numbered Acts

WORKING WITH CHILDREN (RISK MANAGEMENT AND SCREENING) AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2024 - SECT 34

34 Amendment of s 15 (What is a serious offence)

(1) Section 15 (1) (a) , ‘relating to the provision’—
omit.

(2) Section 15 (1) (e) , after ‘committed,’—
insert—
or is alleged to have been committed,

(3) Section 15 —
insert—

(1A) Despite subsection (1), an offence is not a
"serious offence" if the offence was committed, or is alleged to have been committed, by a person when the person was a child.

(1B) However, if the conduct constituting or alleged to constitute an offence occurs between 2 dates, the first on which the person was a child and the second on which the person was an adult, the conduct is taken to occur when the person was an adult.

(4) Section 15 (1A) to (2) —
renumber as section 15 (2) to (4) .