Children and Community Services (Outside School Hours Care) Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

1 March 2006 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 925

Children and Community Services Act 2004

Children and Community Services (Outside

School Hours Care) Amendment

Regulations 2006

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.             Citation

These regulations are the Children and Community Services (Outside School Hours Care) Amendment Regulations 2006.

2.             The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Children and
Community Services (Outside School Hours Care)
Regulations 2006*.

[* Published in Gazette 18 January 2006, p. 289-351.]

3.             Regulation 3 amended

Regulation 3 is amended by deleting the definitions of “enrolled child” and “outside school hours care service” and inserting the following definitions instead —

“

“enrolled child”, in relation to an outside school hours care service, means a child for whom the service is provided;
“outside school hours care service” means a child

care service provided outside school hours for
children of school age or kindergarten children but
does not include an outside school hours family
day care service as defined in the Children and
Community Services (Outside School Hours

Family Day Care) Regulations 2006 regulation 3;

”.

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4.             Regulation 4 replaced

Regulation 4 is repealed and the following regulation is inserted
instead —

“

4.             Meaning of “school age”

A child is of “school age” in a particular year if the
child —

(a)	has reached 5 years and 6 months of age or will reach 5 years and 6 months of age in that year; and
(b)	is under 15 years and 6 months of age.

”.

5.             Regulation 88 inserted

After regulation 87 the following regulation is inserted —

“

88.           Continued operation of service in certain circumstances

(1)	In an emergency situation or in circumstances where the licence for the outside school hours care service is suspended or cancelled, the CEO may, in writing, authorise a person to continue to operate a service for a period specified in the authorisation.
(2)	The period specified in the authorisation must not be longer than 3 months.
(3)	A person authorised under subregulation (1) is to be taken to be the licensee for the purposes of the Act and the regulations.

”.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.