Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (WORK EXPERIENCE) ACT 1996 - SECT 12

12 Conditions of work experience

(1) The following conditions apply to work experience—

(a) the work experience arrangement must be made before the student starts a work experience placement;

(b) if the student is a minor—a parent of the student must give written consent to the arrangement;

(c) the work experience placement must finish in the year it starts;

(d) the student must not receive work experience for more than 30 days in a year;

(e) the work experience provider must not provide work experience to more than the permitted number of students at the same time;

(f) the work experience provider must not provide work experience to the student at a time other than during the ordinary working hours of the place where the work experience is provided;

(g) the student must not be paid for work experience.

(2) Subsection (1) (b) does not apply to a student who is not in an adult’s care and control.

(3) Despite subsection (1) (d) , a principal may approve, for a student who is a person with a disability, work experience for more than 30 days in a year.

(4) For subsection (1) (e) , the permitted number of students is—

(a) the number equal to the number of full-time employees of the work experience provider; or

(b) if special circumstances exist—the number approved by the chief executive.