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DISABILITY SERVICES AND OTHER LEGISLATION (WORKER SCREENING) AMENDMENT ACT 2020 - SECT 42

42 Amendment of s 223 (Deciding application—negative notice cancelled or holder of eligibility declaration)

(1) Section 223 (2) and (3) , from ‘police information’ to ‘ subsection (1) (a) or (b) ,’—
omit, insert—
new assessable information about the person,

(2) Section 223 —
insert—

(5) In this section—

"new assessable information" , about a person, means information about the person that—

(a) is, police information, disciplinary information or other information that the chief executive reasonably believes is relevant to deciding whether it would be in the best interests of children for the chief executive to issue a working with children clearance to the person; and

(b) was not known to the chief executive when the chief executive took the action mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b).