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South Australia
Children's Protection (Notification) Amendment
Bill 2013
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Children's
Protection Act 1993.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Commencement
3Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Children's
Protection Act 1993
4Amendment of section
11—Notification of abuse or neglect
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Children's Protection (Notification)
Amendment Act 2013.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
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
4—Amendment
of section 11—Notification of abuse or neglect
Section 11—after subsection (2) insert:
(2a) In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1), it is a
defence for the defendant to prove that his or her suspicion was due solely to
having been informed of the suspected abuse or neglect by a police officer
acting in the course of his or her official duties.
(2b) In proceedings for an offence against subsection (1), it is a
defence for the defendant to prove that—
(a) his or her suspicion was due solely to having been informed of the
suspected abuse or neglect by another person to whom this section applies;
and
(b) he or she believed on reasonable grounds that the other person had
given a notification under this section in respect of the suspected abuse or
neglect.