Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

WORKING WITH VULNERABLE PEOPLE (BACKGROUND CHECKING) AMENDMENT ACT 2019 (NO. 13 OF 2019) - SECT 67

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    (1)     The commissioner may give protected information to any of the following if satisfied on reasonable grounds that the information is relevant to preventing harm or risk of harm to a vulnerable person or class of vulnerable people:

        (a)     the director-general responsible for the Education Act 2004

;

        (b)     the director-general responsible for the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT)

;

        (c)     the director-general responsible for the Health Act 1993

;

        (d)     the director-general responsible for the Children and Young People Act 2008

, other than chapter 20 of that Act;

        (e)     the ombudsman;

        (f)     the chief executive officer of the ACT Teacher Quality Institute;

        (g)     the chief police officer or a chief police officer (however described) of another jurisdiction;

        (h)     the senior practitioner;

              (i)     the registrar-general;

        (j)     the regulator under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011

;

        (k)     the road transport authority;

        (l)     the work safety commissioner;

        (m)     the NDIS quality and safeguards commissioner;

        (n)     an entity administering a corresponding law;

        (o)     any other entity prescribed by regulation.