Criminal Code Amendment (Protecting Commonwealth Frontline Workers) Act 2024 (64 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Criminal Code Act 1995

3   At the end of section 146.1 of the Criminal Code

Add:

(2) A Commonwealth frontline worker is a person:

(a) who is a Commonwealth public official; and

(b) who performs work requiring the person to deal directly (whether or not in person) with the public, or a class of the public, as a primary function of their role; and

(c) who is not a Commonwealth judicial officer or a Commonwealth law enforcement officer.

(3) Without limiting paragraph (2)(b), the regulations may prescribe one or more categories of persons who, for the purposes of that paragraph, are taken to perform work requiring the persons to deal directly with the public, or a class of the public, as a primary function of their role.