Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Minister may,
by order published in the Gazette , exempt a specified child care service or a
child care service of a specified type from the application of —
(a)
section 9; or
(b) the
regulations; or
(c) a
specified provision of the regulations.
(2) In
subsection (1) —
specified means specified in the order.
(3A) An order made
under subsection (1) may specify conditions subject to which the
exemption is to apply.
(3B) A person who
provides a child care service to which an order made under subsection (1)
applies must not contravene a condition specified in the order.
Penalty: a fine of $12 000.
(3) The Minister may,
by order published in the Gazette , amend or repeal an order made under
subsection (1).
(4) In the exercise of
the powers conferred by subsections (1) and (3), the Minister must
have regard to —
(a) the
best interests of the children for whom the child care service is or is
intended to be provided and any special needs or interests of those children;
and
(b) the
views of the parents of those children; and
(c) the
needs of the locality in which the child care service is or is intended to be
provided and the extent to which those needs are being met; and
(d) the
desirability of or need for short-term, special, innovative, experimental,
culturally appropriate and culturally specific child care services.
[Section 45 amended by No. 38 of 2011
s. 28.]