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WORKER SCREENING ACT 2020 (NO. 34 OF 2020) - SECT 27

NDIS category C applications

    (1)     An application for an NDIS check is an NDIS category C application if it is in respect of a person—

        (a)     who is charged with or has at any time been convicted or found guilty of an offence other than an NDIS category A offence or an NDIS category B offence; or

        (b)     who is charged with or has at any time been convicted or found guilty of an NDIS category A offence or an NDIS category B offence if the conduct constituting or alleged to constitute that offence occurred when the person was a child; or

        (c)     who has at any time been charged with an NDIS category A offence or an NDIS category B offence if the charge has been finally dealt with other than by way of conviction or finding of guilt; or

        (d)     who has at any time been convicted or found guilty outside Australia of an offence that if committed in Victoria would be an NDIS category A offence or an NDIS category B offence; or

        (e)     who has at any time been subject to a relevant disciplinary or regulatory finding; or

        (f)         who has been assessed by the Secretary to the Department of Health and Human Services as posing an unacceptable risk to persons with a disability or NDIS participants; or

        (g)     who has been the subject of any relevant civil penalty imposed under the NDIS Act; or

        (h)     who, not more than 5 years before the application was made, was given a WWC exclusion on a WWC category C application or WWC category C re-assessment.

Note

For examples of the ways a charge may be finally dealt with, see section 6(1).

    (2)     For the purposes of this section, if the conduct constituting an offence or alleged to constitute an offence occurs between 2 dates, one on which the person was a child and one on which the person was an adult, that conduct occurs when the person was an adult.



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