Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If a responsible person becomes aware, or reasonably suspects, that harm has been caused to a child placed in the care of an entity conducting a departmental care service or a licensee, the person must, unless the person has a reasonable excuse, report the harm, or suspected harm, to the chief executive—
(a) immediately; and
(b) if a regulation is in force under subsection (2), in accordance with the regulation.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(2) A regulation may prescribe the way the report must be given or the particulars that the report must include.
(3) It is a reasonable excuse for the person not to report a matter that reporting the matter might tend to incriminate the person.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply if the person knows, or reasonably supposes, that the chief executive is aware of the harm or suspected harm.
(5) As soon as practicable after receiving a report under this section, the chief executive must give a copy to the children's commissioner to help the commissioner perform the commissioner's monitoring functions under the Commissioner's Act.
(6) In this section—
responsible person means—
(a) an authorised officer; or
(b) an officer or employee of the department involved in administering this Act; or
(c) a person employed in a departmental care service or licensed care service.