Working with Children Check Act 2000

This section applies if—

a child is an NDIS participant; and

a relevant person for the child gives the chief executive written notice that a stated person carrying on an NDIS regulated business is delivering NDIS supports or services to the child.

The chief executive may give the child, a person with parental responsibility for the child or the child’s plan manager a written notice about any of the following matters—

if a working with children check application made by the person is decided—that fact and whether the person was issued a working with children authority or negative notice;

if a working with children authority held by the person expires or is suspended or cancelled—the expiry, suspension or cancellation;

if, under section 344AA(3), the chief executive is required to give a notifiable person for the person a notice about a change in police information about the person—the change in the police information.

A notice about a matter mentioned in subsection (2)(c) must include only the information about the change in the police information that the chief executive is required to give a notifiable person for the person under section 344AA(3).

In this section—NDIS participant means a participant in the national disability insurance scheme under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth).NDIS regulated business means a regulated business mentioned in schedule 1, section 16A.parental responsibility see the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth), section 75.plan manager, for a child who is an NDIS participant, means a person other than the child who is managing the funding for supports under the child’s plan within the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth), section 42.relevant person, for a child who is an NDIS participant, means—

the child; or

a person with parental responsibility for the child; or

the child’s plan manager; or

a person who carries on an NDIS regulated business that includes delivering NDIS supports or services to the child.