Locking doors—children in education and care service premises or QEC approved services or persons in custody
12 Locking doors—children in education and care service premises or QEC approved services or persons in custody
This section applies if—
a child (an occupant) is in a building being used for conducting a centre based education and care service or QEC approved service; or
a person (also an occupant) is being held in lawful custody in a building.
If the occupant is within the building on the internal side of a door on an evacuation route of the building, a person must not lock the door in a way that would be likely to unduly restrict, hinder or delay a custodian for the occupant in opening the door.
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
The occupier of the building must ensure that a door on an evacuation route of the building can not be locked in a way that would be likely to unduly restrict, hinder or delay a custodian for the occupant in opening the door.
Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.
In this section—
centre based education and care service means an approved education and care service, other than a family day care service, under the Education and Care Services National Law (Queensland).
custodian, for an occupant, means—
if the occupant is a child in a building being used for conducting a centre based education and care service—a person providing education and care as part of the service; or
if the occupant is a child in a building being used for conducting a QEC approved service—a person providing regulated education and care as part of a QEC approved service; or
if the occupant is being held in lawful custody in a building—a person who controls the movement of the occupant within the building.
QEC approved service see the Education and Care Services Act 2013, schedule 1.
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