Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the director-general is deciding whether to approve a research project that involves a child or young person taking part in the project.
(2) The director-general may approve the research project only if satisfied that—
(a) the researcher is a suitable entity to have contact with children or young people in the way proposed in the project; and
Note Suitable entities to provide services are dealt with in pt 2.4.
(b) any other person who is to have contact with children or young people for the project is a suitable entity to have contact with children or young people in the way proposed in the project.
(3) If the director-general approves a research project that involves a child or young person, the researcher must—
(a) seek the written consent, for the child or young person to take part in the research project, of—
(i) the child or young person (if the child or young person has sufficient developmental capacity to give consent); or
(ii) a person with daily care responsibility for the child or young person; and
(b) tell the child or young person that—
(i) he or she can refuse consent; and
(ii) if consent is given, he or she can stop taking part in the project at any time.