Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Education and Training Reform Act 2006 - SECT 2.2.10.

Education in Government schools to be secular

2.2.10. Education in Government schools to be secular



(1) Except as provided in section 2.2.11, education in Government schools must
be secular and not promote any particular religious practice, denomination or
sect.

(2) Subsection (1) does not prevent the inclusion of general religious
education in the curriculum of a Government school.

(3) A Government school teacher must not provide religious instruction other
than the provision of general religious education in any Government school
building.

(4) In this section general religious education means education about the
major forms of religious thought and expression characteristic of Australian
society and other societies in the world.