Working with Children Check Act 2000

Each of the following is an authorised entity for a person—

another person (the person’s employer) if—

the employer has notified the chief executive under this Act that the employer employs, or proposes to employ, the person; and

neither the employer nor the person has notified the chief executive otherwise;

another person the chief executive accepts as an authorised representative of the person’s employer;

another person who is a notifiable person for the person;

an entity to whom the chief executive is required to, or may, give a working with children notice about the person under this Act;

another person the chief executive accepts is authorised by the department to assist the chief executive in performing the chief executive’s main functions under section 8(a).

The chief executive may give the authorised entity information about—

a working with children check application made by the person; or

a working with children authority or negative notice held by the person; or

a working with children notice about the person given, or required to be given, to the authorised entity under this Act.

The chief executive may give the information under subsection (2) by allowing the authorised entity to access the information electronically.

In this section—working with children notice, about a person, means a notice that relates to—

a working with children check application made by the person; or

a working with children authority or negative notice held by the person.