EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 4.3.8C Authority must not register school boarding premises unless satisfied of certain matters

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 4.3.8C

    (1)     The Authority must not register a school boarding premises unless the Authority is satisfied that—

        (a)     the policies of the provider of school boarding services at the premises relating to the discipline of students who are boarding at the premises are based on principles of procedural fairness and do not permit corporal punishment; and

        (b)     the provider of school boarding services at the premises has ensured that the premises and those services comply with the minimum standards for registration of school boarding premises that are prescribed by the regulations or by this Act including standards relating to the following—

              (i)     the provider's acceptance policies for students who wish to board at the premises;

              (ii)     the welfare of students boarding at the premises;

              (iii)     governance of the provider of school boarding services at the premises;

              (iv)     the probity of the provider of school boarding services at the premises and any person responsible for managing the premises;

              (v)     processes for the review and evaluation of the premises and the school boarding services to be provided at the premises; and

        (c)     if the provider of school boarding services at the premises has accepted a student to board at the premises and knows, or ought reasonably to know, that the student has been diagnosed as being at risk of anaphylaxis, the provider has developed an anaphylaxis management policy containing matters required by a Ministerial Order to be included in the policy; and

S. 4.3.8C(1)(d) substituted by No. 23/2021 s. 58(1).

        (d)     the provider of school boarding services at the premises has developed policies, procedures, measures and practices in accordance with a Ministerial Order for compliance with the Child Safe Standards; and

S. 4.3.8C(1)(e) inserted by No. 23/2021 s. 58(1).

        (e)     the provider complies with the Child Safe Standards.

S. 4.3.8C(2) amended by No. 23/2021 s. 58(2).

    (2)     The requirements in subsection (1)(a), (c), (d) and (e) are prescribed minimum standards for registration of school boarding premises.

Note

Prescribed minimum standards for registration of school boarding premises may also be prescribed by the regulations under subsection (1)(b).

S. 4.3.8D inserted by No. 33/2020 s. 7.