Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 13G

13G Report to the chief executive

(1) This section applies to a report that a relevant person is required to give under section 13E or 13F .

(2) The report must—

(a) state the basis on which the person has formed the reportable suspicion; and

(b) include the information prescribed by regulation, to the extent of the person’s knowledge.

(3) The person is not required to give a report about a matter if—

(a) giving the report might tend to incriminate the person; or

(b) the person knows, or reasonably supposes, that the chief executive is aware of the matter.

(4) A regulation may prescribe the way the report must be given.

(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a person does not commit an offence against this or another Act only because the person omits to do an act required under section 13E (3) or 13F (3) or this section.