(1) This section applies if the director-general proposes to include in a childcare standards report information about a licensed childcare service being operated in a way that does not comply with a childcare services standard.
(2) The director-general must give the licensed proprietor of the childcare service a written notice (a childcare standards report notice ) stating—
(a) the director-general's proposal; and
(b) that the licensed proprietor may, not later than 30 days after the day the notice is given to the licensed proprietor, make a submission about the proposal to the director-general; and
(c) that if the proprietor makes a written submission in accordance with the notice, the submission may be included in a childcare standards report.
(3) A childcare standards report notice must not include information that—
(a) identifies a person as a person who made a confidential report; or
(b) would allow a person's identity as a person who made a confidential report to be worked out.
(4) Before including in a childcare standards report information about a childcare service being operated in a way that does not comply with a childcare services standard, the director-general must consider any submission made by the licensed proprietor in accordance with the childcare standards report notice.
(5) If the director-general
decides to include in a childcare standards report information about a
licensed childcare service being operated in a way that does not comply with a
childcare services standard, the director-general must also include in the
report a copy of any written submission given to the director-general by the
licensed proprietor in accordance with a childcare standard report notice.
Note to pt 20.5
Other enforcement provisions apply to this chapter (see ch
23).