---
title: "Victorian child employment checklist for entertainment"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/vic-child-employment-entertainment-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a39-vic-child-employment-entertainment-checklist"
area_id: "A39"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A39-D20261018-2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Victorian child employment checklist for entertainment

> A checklist for employing a child under 15 in Victorian entertainment or advertising: the licence, the supervisor, the hours on the employment page, and the records. Medical details are not copied into the checklist.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/vic-child-employment-entertainment-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt

## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Sports & Entertainment Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Victoria.

## When to use it

Use when a Victorian production will employ someone under 15 in film, television, radio, advertising, photography, modelling, or live entertainment, whether paid or voluntary. Do not use it as the licence application or the child information form. The Mandatory Code itself was not opened.

## Used for these tasks

- [Build the child-performer employment checklist for a production](https://ailawframework.com/practice/sports-and-entertainment-law/build-the-child-performer-employment-checklist-for-a-production.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may place each child into the age row on the page and list the licence and supervision gaps. It must not copy medical information, or say a variation of the hours will be granted.

**AI may:**

- Record whether a current entertainment licence names an employee representative with a Working with Children clearance, or a stated exemption
- Match a child's age to the film row or the live-entertainment row and copy that row's days, spread and hours
- Flag school-hours work that has no attendance exemption, and a baby under 12 weeks whose form is not identified
- List the supervision record that must be kept for 5 years, without copying a clearance number into an unapproved tool

**AI must not:**

- Must not copy a child's medical information, or draft the child information form
- Must not say the employer may exceed the hours. Variation and school-hours exemption are separate applications and those pages were not opened
- Must not treat the Mandatory Code as read beyond the parts this employment page sets out
- Must not employ, or describe employing, a child under 15 without a licence as lawful

**The lawyer checks:**

- The worker is under 15, the work is entertainment or advertising, and the licence is an entertainment licence that is still inside its one-year term
- The supervisor matches the age band, is at least 18, and holds a clearance unless the page's exemption applies
- The hours row matches film and stills, or live entertainment, and the 9 pm and school-day limits are applied where the page marks them
- A parent has been given the role, duties, hours and workplaces, and the medical form is held by the employer and not in this checklist

## Authorities

- [Victorian Government, Child employment licence: entertainment and advertising (licence, supervision, hours and records)](https://www.vic.gov.au/child-employment-licence-entertainment-and-advertising)
- [Child Employment Act 2003 (Vic), as named on that page. The Act was not opened.](https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/child-employment-act-2003)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/sports-and-entertainment-law/vic-child-employment-entertainment-checklist and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*