Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(1) An applicant for a screening check must consent:
(a) to the Screening Agency seeking information from law enforcement agencies, the NDIS Commission and other prescribed organisations; and
(b) for those bodies to provide information relevant to the determination of the application to the Screening Agency.
(2) The applicant must also consent to:
(a) the result of the screening check in relation to the applicant being disclosed to the applicant's current and prospective employers, the NDIS Commission and screening authorities of other States or another Territory; and
(b) relevant information (including the result of the screening check in relation to the applicant) being entered in a database for clearances for the NDIS; and
(c) if a clearance is granted – ongoing monitoring for the duration of the clearance of the applicant's eligibility to maintain the clearance; and
(d) the sharing of information relating to the applicant between law enforcement agencies and the NDIS Commission for screening processes for working with vulnerable people.
(3) The applicant may consent to a secondary use of de-identified information for research purposes or compilation of statistics for use in workforce development, service improvement and quality and safety improvements.
Note for subsection (3)
See IPP2 in the Information Act 2002 .