Evidence of staff qualifications or enrolment
119 Evidence of staff qualifications or enrolment
This section applies if—
a person who is a staff member of a QEC approved service—
has a particular qualification or competency; or
is enrolled in a particular course of study; and
the approved provider would contravene this Act if—
for a person mentioned in paragraph (a)(i)—the person did not have the qualification or competency; or
for a person mentioned in paragraph (a)(ii)—the person was not enrolled in the course.
The approved provider must keep a document that is, under subsection (3), evidence that—
for a person mentioned in subsection (1)(a)(i)—the person has the qualification of competency; or
for a person mentioned in subsection (1)(a)(ii)—the person is enrolled in the course.
Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.
For this Act—
a document is evidence that a person has a particular qualification or competency if it is an original award, or a certified copy of an original award, issued to the person on obtaining the qualification or completing the training for the competency; and
a document is evidence that a person is enrolled in a particular course of study if it is a document, or a certified copy of a document, issued to the person by the institution conducting the course, indicating that the person is enrolled in the course.
In this section—
certified copy, of an original award or a document, is copy certified to be a true copy by a justice, commissioner for declarations, notary public or lawyer.
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