Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD CARE ACT 2002 - SECT 5

(1) A child care service is a service for regularly providing child care, but does not include any of the following services—

(aa) an education and care service;

(a) a service, for providing primary, secondary or special education, conducted by a school;

(b) a service for providing a pre-preparatory learning program, at a prescribed State school or a prescribed non-State school, to a pre-preparatory age child;

(c) a service principally conducted to provide—

(i) therapeutic services; or

(ii) residential facilities; or

(iii) instruction in a particular activity, for example, dance, music or a sport; or

(iv) tutoring, coaching or religious instruction; or

(v) a recreational activity, for example, a camp or party;

Examples for paragraph (c)—

hospital, boarding facility for school students, dance academy, sporting club, Sunday school, scout group

(d) a service for which, usually, the children to whom care is provided are entirely or mostly different on each occasion the care is provided;

Example for paragraph (d)—

a service, conducted by a hotel or resort, to provide child care to children who are short-term guests

(e) a service in which the only child care provided is—

(i) holiday care; or

(ii) adjunct care; or

(iii) care of children who are at least 12 years old;

(f) a service that is, under the Child Protection Act 1999, a licensed care service, departmental care service or service provided as an approved carer;

(g) another service prescribed under a regulation not to be a child care service.

(2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a service may be a child care service even though it is conducted—

(a) by an entity that also carries on a school; or

(b) at premises at which a school is also carried on.

(3) In this section—

pre-preparatory age child see the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006, schedule 4.

pre-preparatory learning program see the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006, schedule 4.

prescribed non-State school see the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006, schedule 4.

prescribed State school see the Education (General Provisions) Act 2006, schedule 4.