Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

VICTIMS OF CRIME REGULATIONS 2000 (2000 NO 51) - REG 48

    The board may make guidelines about the following:

        (a)     fixing minimum standards of qualifications or experience for people who volunteer to provide practical assistance and support to victims;

        (b)     the experience or knowledge required by a volunteer;

        (c)     the undertaking by a volunteer of continuing education in the provision of services to victims;

        (d)     the undertaking by a volunteer of training courses about dealing with people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural backgrounds;

        (e)     the use of people who have committed a serious crime as volunteers;

        (f)     the supervision of volunteers and the conducting of assessments and evaluations of the services provided by volunteers;

        (g)     the occupational health and safety of volunteers;

        (h)     indemnity insurance for the acts or omissions of volunteers;

              (i)     the debriefing of volunteers;

        (j)     other matters necessary or convenient to be decided with respect to volunteers.

Note      Under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 1989 , s 6, the Minister administering that Act can declare people included in specified classes of people to be taken to be employed by the person to whom their services are voluntary given. The effect of the declaration is that an employer who must take all reasonably practicable steps to protect the health, safety and welfare of the employer's employees must give the same protection to a volunteer.