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WORKING WITH CHILDREN (SCREENING) ACT 2004 - SECT 20

20 .         Cancellation of assessment notice or negative notice as result of wrong or incomplete information

        (1)         In this section —

        correct notice means —

            (a)         in relation to the cancellation of an assessment notice — a negative notice; or

            (b)         in relation to the cancellation of a negative notice — an assessment notice.

        (2)         The CEO may cancel an assessment notice or negative notice (the first notice ) and substitute the correct notice if the CEO is satisfied that —

            (a)         the decision on the application for the first notice was based on wrong or incomplete information; and

            (b)         based on the correct or complete information, the CEO should issue the correct notice.

        (3)         If the correct notice to be substituted is a negative notice, the CEO is to comply with section 13 before the correct notice may be substituted.

        (4)         Without limiting subsection (2), an application for the cancellation of a negative notice may be made under this section by the person to whom it was issued.

        (5)         Section 19 does not apply to the application if the CEO is satisfied under subsection (2) that an assessment notice should be issued to the applicant.

        (6)         The CEO is to issue the correct notice to the person to whom the first notice was issued and, if the CEO is aware that that person is, or is proposed to be, employed in child-related employment by another person, the CEO is to give a copy of the correct notice to the other person.



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