Title: Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill2003
Author: Office of Parliamentary Counsel
Category: parliamentary.copy
Document comments: ha96

House of Assembly—No 96
As received from the Legislative Council and read a first time, 6 April 2005

Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill 2003

Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill 2003
Part 1—Preliminary

Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill 2003
Preliminary—Part 1

Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill 2003
Part 2—Amendment of Children's Protection Act 1993

Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill 2003
Amendment of Children's Protection Act 1993—Part 2

South Australia
Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Bill 2003
A Bill For
An Act to amend the Children's Protection Act 1993.

Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1	Short title
2	Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Children's Protection Act 1993
3	Amendment of section 11—Notification of abuse or neglect

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:
Part 1—Preliminary
1—Short title
This Act may be cited as the Children's Protection (Mandatory Reporting) Amendment Act 2003.
2—Amendment provisions
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2—Amendment of Children's Protection Act 1993
3—Amendment of section 11—Notification of abuse or neglect
	(1)	Section 11(1)—Leave out:
"Maximum penalty: $2 500."
and insert
"Maximum penalty: $10 000."
	(2)	Section 11(2)—after paragraph (g) insert:
	(ga)	a minister of religion;
	(gb)	a person who is an employee of, or volunteer in, a church or other religious organisation;
	(3)	Section 11(2)(j)—after "education," insert:
recreational services,
	(4)	Section 11—after subsection (3) insert:
	(4)	This section does not require a minister of religion to divulge any information communicated to him or her in the course of a confession.
	(5)	In subsection (4)—
confession means a confession made by a person to a minister of religion in his or her capacity as such according to the rules or usages of the religion of the minister.

LC GP 054-E: Hon Nick Xenophon