South Australian Current Acts

CHILD SAFETY (PROHIBITED PERSONS) ACT 2016 - SECT 27

27—Application for working with children check

        (1)         Subject to this Act, an application for a working with children check—

            (a)         must be made to the central assessment unit by the person to whom the working with children check relates; and

            (b)         must be made in a manner and form determined by the central assessment unit; and

            (c)         must be accompanied by such information as may reasonably be required by the central assessment unit; and

            (d)         must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

        (2)         The regulations may make further provision in relation to applications for working with children checks (including by allowing an application to be made for or on behalf of a person by their employer or another person).

        (3)         The central assessment unit may refuse to consider an application if—

            (a)         the central assessment unit has conducted a working with children check in relation to the person to whom the application relates within the preceding 5 years; and

            (b)         on completion of that working with children check, the central assessment unit issued a prohibition notice to the person; and

            (c)         that prohibition notice has not been revoked.

        (4)         The central assessment unit must, in accordance with any requirements set out in the regulations—

            (a)         issue a receipt in the prescribed form to each applicant for a working with children check; and

            (b)         if the person to whom the working with children check relates does not have a unique identifier—issue a unique identifier to the person in accordance with section 29.