Child and Youth Safe Organisations Amendment Regulations 2024
I, the Lieutenant-Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Act 2023 .
18 November 2024A. M. BLOW
Lieutenant-Governor
By His Excellency's Command,
GUY BARNETT
Minister for Justice
These regulations may be cited as the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Amendment Regulations 2024 .
These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.
In these regulations, the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Regulations 2023 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.
4. Regulation 6A inserted
After regulation 6 of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted:6A. Information may be disclosed by, and for the purposes of, the Woolcott Review
(1) In this regulation –Woolcott Review means the review –(a) established by the Premier in November 2023 to be conducted by Peter Woolcott; and(b) known as the Independent Review into the actions taken in response to the information and concerns raised by the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.(2) For the purposes of section 40(3)(k) of the Act, persons employed or engaged to conduct the Woolcott Review are prescribed persons for the purpose of conducting that Review in accordance with its terms of reference.(3) This regulation is rescinded on the first anniversary of its commencement.
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 27 November 2024
These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the regulation)
These regulations amend the Child and Youth Safe Organisations Regulations 2023 to enable certain information to be shared to, and by, the independent review into concerns raised by the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Reponses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings.