Existing positive exemption notice and positive exemption notice card
572 Existing positive exemption notice and positive exemption notice card
This section applies if, immediately before the commencement, a person holds a current positive exemption notice.
The positive exemption notice is taken to be a working with children exemption issued—
to the person under amended chapter 8, part 5, division 8; and
for the term that ends 3 years after the commencement.
If, immediately before the commencement, the positive exemption notice was suspended under previous section 298—
the person’s working with children exemption under subsection (2) is taken to have been suspended under amended section 296; and
the suspension may be dealt with under the amended Act.
An exemption card issued to the person for the person’s positive exemption notice is taken to be a working with children card issued to the person under section 290A for the person’s working with children exemption under subsection (2).
Despite schedule 7, definition working with children card, paragraph (b), it does not matter that the exemption card does not include—
a photograph of the person; or
the expiry date of the person’s working with children exemption.
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