New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

CHILD PROTECTION (PROHIBITED EMPLOYMENT) ACT 1998 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

In this Act:
"child" means a person who is under 18 years of age.
"child-related employment":

(a) means any employment of the following kind that primarily involves direct contact with children where that contact is not directly supervised:

(i) employment involving the provision of child protection services,

(ii) employment in pre-schools, kindergartens and child care centres (including residential child care centres),

(iii) employment in schools or other educational institutions (not being universities),

(iv) employment in detention centres (within the meaning of the Children (Detention Centres) Act 1987 ),

(v) employment in refuges used by children,

(vi) employment in wards of public or private hospitals in which children are patients,

(vii) employment in clubs, associations or movements (including of a cultural, recreational or sporting nature) having a significant child membership or involvement,

(viii) employment in any religious organisation,

(ix) employment in entertainment venues where the clientele is primarily children,

(x) employment as a babysitter or childminder that is arranged by a commercial agency,

(xi) employment involving fostering or other child care,

(xii) employment involving regular provision of taxi services for the transport of children with a disability,

(xiii) employment involving the private tuition of children,

(xiv) employment involving the direct provision of child health services,

(xv) employment involving the provision of counselling or other support services for children,

(xvi) employment on school buses,

(xvii) employment at overnight camps for children, and

(b) includes any other employment of a kind prescribed by the regulations, but does not include any employment of a kind excluded by the regulations.

(a) a person who, in the course of business, arranges for the placement of a person in employment with others, or

(b) a person who engages a person under a contract to perform work.

(a) performance of work under a contract of employment, or

(b) performance of work as a self-employed person or as a subcontractor, or

(c) performance of work as a volunteer for an organisation, or

(d) undertaking practical training as part of an educational or vocational course, or

(e) performance of work as a minister of religion or other member of a religious organisation.