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CHILD PROTECTION (WORKING WITH CHILDREN) ACT 2012 - SECT 34
Notification of information relating to criminal history for interstate child-related work screening
(1) The Commissioner of Police may disclose (or arrange for a member of the
NSW Police Force to disclose) information relating to any criminal history of
persons to the following persons for the purposes of
interstate child-related work screening-- (a) the Australian Criminal
Intelligence Commission,
(b) a police force or service of the Commonwealth or
another State or Territory,
(c) an approved interstate screening agency.
(2)
A person to whom information is disclosed may disclose that information to an
approved interstate screening agency for the purposes of
interstate child-related work screening undertaken by the agency.
(3) The
Commissioner of Police may disclose (or arrange for a member of the NSW Police
Force to disclose) to an approved interstate screening agency, at the request
of the agency, information relating to the circumstances of an offence or
alleged offence disclosed under this section for the purposes of
interstate child-related work screening.
(5) This section does not limit the
persons to whom, or the circumstances in which, information relating to the
criminal history, including the criminal record of, persons may be disclosed
apart from this Act.
(6) In this section--
"approved interstate screening agency" means-- (a) a person or body prescribed
by the regulations, or
(b) a body that is authorised under a law of the
Commonwealth, another State or a Territory to conduct
interstate child-related work screening and is approved by the Minister for
the purposes of this section.
"interstate child-related work screening" means using information about
persons who work, or seek to work, with children in a way that is authorised
or required under a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory, for
the purpose of estimating the risk to the safety of children posed by any such
person if working with children.
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