Working with Children Check Act 2000

Employment is regulated employment if it is employment of a type that is stated to be regulated employment in schedule 1, part 1.

However, employment is not regulated employment if—

it is of a type of employment that schedule 1, part 1 states is not regulated employment; or

schedule 1, part 3 states that this chapter does not apply to the employment.

Also, the unpaid employment of a child is not regulated employment unless the child is a trainee student of an education provider and the employment is part of the course undertaken by the trainee student with the education provider.

Further, subject to subsections (5) and (6), the employment of a person is not regulated employment if—

the person is employed to work, and works, in the employment for not more than 7 days in a calendar year; or

the person is a parent providing a service or activity on a voluntary basis to children and the children to whom the service or activity is provided include the person’s own child.

Despite subsection (4), a person is employed in regulated employment if the employment or the service or activity includes, or is likely to include, an overnight camp or excursion for children under schedule 1, section 9.

Also, despite subsection (4)(b), a person is employed in regulated employment if the person is a parent providing a service or activity to a child that includes, or may include, close personal contact with a child other than the person’s own child.Examples of close personal contact with a child—assisting a child with toileting, bathing or dressing