Care of children under Child Protection Act 1999
14 Care of children under Child Protection Act 1999
Employment is regulated employment if the usual functions of the employment include, or are likely to include, providing care for a child as an approved carer, other than a provisionally approved carer.
If a person provides, or is likely to provide, care for a child in the person’s capacity as an approved carer, other than a provisionally approved carer, each adult member of the person’s household is taken to be a volunteer who is engaged in regulated employment.
Employment is regulated employment if the usual functions of the employment—
are carried out, or likely to be carried out, inside a licensed residential facility; or
include responsibility for directly managing a licensed care service; or
include performing a risk-assessed role for a licensed care service.
sch 1 s 14 (prev sch 1 s 6G) ins 2006 No. 17 s 56(3)
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