New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (WORKING WITH CHILDREN) ACT 2012 - SECT 36A

36A Information-sharing

(1) The Children's Guardian may exchange working with children check information with an interstate screening agency.

(2) If a person, acting in good faith, exchanges information in accordance with this section, the person is not liable to civil or criminal action, or disciplinary action, for exchanging the information.

(3) Nothing in this section limits an exchange of working with children check information otherwise permitted under this Act or another Act or law.

(4) In this section--

"interstate screening agency" means a body authorised under a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory to conduct interstate child-related work screening, within the meaning of section 34.

"personal information" has the same meaning as in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 .

"working with children check information" means--

(a) information relevant to determining whether to grant or cancel a working with children check clearance, or its equivalent in another jurisdiction, to a particular person, and

(b) personal information about the holder of a clearance, and

(c) information about whether a person has been cleared to engage in child-related work, and

(d) information recorded on the NRS database, within the meaning of section 36D.