Volunteers Protection Act 2001

work for any one or more of the following purposes:

for a religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose;

for promoting or encouraging literature, science or the arts;

for looking after, or providing medical treatment or attention for, people who need care because of a physical or mental disability or condition;

for sport, recreation or amusement;

for conserving resources or protecting the natural environment from harm;

for preserving historical or cultural heritage;

for a political purpose;

for protecting or promoting the common interests of the community generally or a particular section of the community; or

work classified by regulation as community work, but does not include work excluded by regulation from the ambit of this definition;

receives no remuneration for the work; or

is remunerated for the work but within limits fixed by regulation for the purposes of this definition, but a person who carries out community work under the order of a court or a condition of a bond is not to be regarded as working on a voluntary basis;