CHAPTER CONTENTS
Last updated 9 July 2024
Schooling
Children and Employment
Social Security
Health
Transport
Children and Contracts
Negligence
Courts and Tribunals – Civil Proceedings
Children and Wills and Estates
Glossary
A child is legally defined as any person under 18 years of age. Laws relating to children intersect a variety of areas of daily life including employment, schooling and education, social security, contract law, criminal law, wills and estates, transport and health. Children are sometimes legally treated differently to adults because of the protections children receive under various legislation. Under Queensland and federal government laws there are various obligations that parents and guardians, businesses, schools, courts and government, among others, must comply with in relation to children.
Queensland Law Handbook Online 