New South Wales Consolidated Acts

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

36D National Reference System database

(1) The Children's Guardian must record on the NRS database the following information in relation to a negative notice--

(a) the name and date of birth of the person issued with the negative notice,

(b) the type of negative notice,

(c) a change in the status of the negative notice.

(2) If the Children's Guardian records a change in the status of a negative notice on the NRS database, the Children's Guardian must, as soon as reasonably practicable after recording the change, notify each relevant interstate screening agency of the change.

(3) In this section--

"interstate screening agency" --see section 36A.

"negative notice" means a notice issued, whether before or after the commencement of this section, to a person in relation to the following--

(a) an interim bar, including interim bars that have ceased to have effect,

(b) a disqualification,

(c) the refusal of an application for a clearance,

(d) the cancellation of a clearance.

"NRS database" means the database known as the National Reference System database.

"relevant interstate screening agency" means an interstate screening agency that has accessed the record in relation to which the change is recorded on the NRS database.