Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Act 2000 (Qld)

Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Act 2000

An Act to establish a scheme requiring the development and implementation of risk management strategies, and the screening of persons employed in particular employment or carrying on particular businesses, to promote and protect the rights, interests and wellbeing of children in Queensland

Chapter 1 Preliminary

Part 1 Introduction

1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) Act 2000.

2 Commencement This Act commences on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

4 Act binds all persons (1) This Act binds all persons including the State and, as far as the legislative power of the Parliament permits, the Commonwealth and all the other States. (2) Subsection (1) does not make the State, the Commonwealth or another State liable for an offence.

4A [Repealed]

5 Object of Act The object of this Act is to promote and protect the rights, interests and wellbeing of children and young people in Queensland through a scheme requiring— (a) the development and implementation of risk management strategies; and (b) the screening of persons employed in particular employment or carrying on particular businesses.

6 Principles for administering this Act This Act is to be administered under the following principles— (a) the welfare and best interests of a child are paramount; (b) every child is entitled to be cared for in a way that protects the child from harm and promotes the child's wellbeing.

7 Act applies despite the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 This Act applies to a person despite anything in the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986.

8 Chief executive's main functions The chief executive's main functions under this Act are— (a) to administer the scheme under chapters 7 and 8 that regulates— (i) persons employed, or proposed to be employed, in certain child-related employment; and (ii) persons carrying on, or proposing to carry on, certain child-related businesses; and (b) to audit or monitor compliance with chapters 7 and 8; and (c) to establish a register of regulated persons who provide home-based care services to children.