Victorian Numbered Acts

CRIMES (SEXUAL OFFENCES) ACT 2006 (NO 2 OF 2006) - SECT 15

In section 50(1) of the Crimes Act 1958 —

        (a)     insert the following definitions—

' "cognitive impairment" includes impairment because of mental illness, intellectual disability, dementia or brain injury;

"facility" means a service operated by any person or body (government or non-government) that provides programs specially designed to meet the developmental or educational needs of persons with a cognitive impairment and includes a residential facility;';

        (b)     the definitions of "impaired" and "resident" are repealed ;

        (c)     for the definition of "worker" substitute —

' "worker" means a person who delivers, or assists in delivering, at a facility (whether as an employee or as a volunteer or in any other capacity) a program specially designed to meet the developmental or educational needs of persons with a cognitive impairment residing at the facility or attending the facility to take part in the program but does not include a person with a cognitive impairment who also resides at the facility or attends the facility to take part in the program.'.