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CHILD PROTECTION (WORKING WITH CHILDREN) ACT 2012 - SECT 9
Employers must require clearance or current application
(1) An employer must not commence employing, or continue to employ, a worker
in child-related work if the employer knows or has reasonable cause to believe
that-- (a) the worker is not the holder of a
working with children check clearance that authorises that work and that there
is no current application by the worker to the Children's Guardian for a
clearance of a class applicable to that work, or
(b) the worker is subject to
an interim bar.
: Maximum penalty--100 penalty units, in the case of a
corporation, and 50 penalty units in any other case.
(2) It is a defence to
proceedings for an offence against this section if the accused person
establishes that, at the time the offence was committed-- (a) the accused
person had been advised by the Children's Guardian that the worker was the
holder of a clearance or that there was a current application by the worker
for a clearance, or
(b) the worker was exempted by the regulations from the
requirement to hold a clearance.
(3) This section extends to an employer who,
in the course of business, arranges for the placement of a worker in
employment with others (a
"placement agency" ) if-- (a) the employment is child-related work, and
(b)
the placement agency is a person or a person of a class declared by the
regulations to be subject to this section.
(4) For the purposes of applying
this section to a placement agency referred to in subsection (3), the
placement agency is taken to employ the worker during any period in which the
placement agency arranges for the employment of the worker in
child-related work.
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