Education and Care Services Act 2013

A Queensland education and care service or QEC service is a service for providing regulated education and care of children under 13 years of age but does not include any of the following services—

an approved education and care service under the Education and Care Services National Law (Queensland);

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

a service principally conducted to provide—

regulated education and care to patients in a hospital or patients in a medical or therapeutic care service; or

residential facilities; or

instruction in a particular activity, including, for example, dance, music or a sport; or

tutoring, coaching or religious instruction; or

a recreational activity, including, for example, a camp or party;

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

a service in which the only education and care provided is—

holiday care; or

adjunct care;

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

a mobile service;

a service prescribed under a regulation.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that a service may be a Queensland education and care service even though it is—

an associated children’s service under the Education and Care Services National Law (Queensland); or

conducted by an entity that also carries on a school; or

conducted at premises at which a school is also carried on.