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CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACT 2007 (NO 37 OF 2007) - SECT 224 Children's services

CARE AND PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACT 2007 (NO 37 OF 2007) - SECT 224

Children's services

    (1)     Children's services are services for the care of a child provided in the following circumstances:

    (a)     the child is less than 13 years of age;

    (b)     the care is provided at a place other than the child's usual place of residence;

    (c)     the services are provided by a person who has been given responsibility for the care of the child by someone having daily care and control of the child.

    (2)     To avoid doubt, children's services may be provided:

    (a)     for all or part of a day; and

    (b)     as an on-going operation or as a single event; and

    (c)     as a community service or as all or a part of a commercial operation.

    (3)     However, the following are not children's services:

    (a)     care of a child by a family member of the child;

    (b)     a private arrangement for the care of children (such as babysitting) under which children from not more than one family are cared for at the same time;

    (c)     private tutoring;

    (d)     services that are part of an educational program provided by a school;

    (e)     services that are health services;

    (f)     services that are:

        (i)     provided as an on-going operation; and

        (ii)     available for each week for not more than 2 hours;

    (g)     services provided under a placement arrangement that are prescribed by regulation;

    (h)     services that the CEO, having regard to the object of this Chapter and the circumstances in which the services are provided, exempts from the operation of this Chapter by Gazette notice.