Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011

An entity may give the commissioner any information (including personal health information, personal information or protected information) if satisfied on reasonable grounds that the information is relevant to preventing harm, or a risk of harm, to a vulnerable person or class of vulnerable people.

The National Authority may disclose to the commissioner a prohibition notice given under the Education and Care Services National Law.

Note See also the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT), s 271 (6) (Disclosure of information to other authorities).

This section does not limit the information that the entity may give to the commissioner under any other territory law.

In this section:

Education and Care Services National Law means the Education and Care Services National Law set out in the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 (Vic), schedule, as applying in any participating jurisdiction.

entity means—

a director-general; or

a member of the human rights commission; or

the chief executive officer of the ACT Teacher Quality Institute; or

the registrar-general; or

the road transport authority; or

the work health and safety commissioner.

member, of the human rights commission, means a member of the commission under the Human Rights Commission Act 2005, section 12.

National Authority—see the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT), section 5 (1).

Note The Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) Act 2011, s 6 applies the Education and Care Services National Law set out in the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010 (Vic), schedule as if it were an ACT law called the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT).

personal health information—see the Health Records (Privacy and Access) Act 1997, dictionary.

personal information—see the Information Privacy Act 2014, dictionary.

protected information—see the Children and Young People Act 2008, dictionary.