Working with Children Check Act 2000

This section applies to a person who is given, or accesses, information about a person under section 344A.

The person must not use the information, or disclose or give access to the information to anyone else, unless the use, disclosure or giving of access is allowed under subsection (3).Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

The person may use the information, or disclose or give access to the information to another person, if the use, disclosure or giving of access—

is to identify, assess or monitor a risk, or potential risk, to the safety or welfare of a child in relation to the regulated employment of the person to whom the information relates; or

is to establish whether or not the person to whom the information relates—

has made a working with children check application; or

holds a working with children authority or a negative notice; or

is to comply with an obligation under this Act; or

happens with the consent of the person to whom the information relates; or

is required to lessen or prevent a serious threat to the life, health, safety or welfare of an individual, or the health, safety or welfare of the public; or

is required by a law enforcement agency to prevent, detect, investigate, prosecute or punish an offence; or

is required for a proceeding in a court or a tribunal; or

is authorised under a regulation or another law.

In this section—law enforcement agency means—

an entity mentioned in the Information Privacy Act 2009, schedule 5, definition law enforcement agency, paragraph (b); or

an enforcement body within the meaning of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cwlth).