Community Visitors Grant Amendment Principles 2012 (No. 1) (Cth)
Community Visitors Grant Amendment Principles 2012 (No.1)1
Aged Care Act 1997
I, MARK BUTLER, Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, make these Principles under section 96-1 of the Aged Care Act 1997.
Dated: 12 Oct 2012
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MARK BUTLER
Minister for Mental Health and Ageing
1 Name of Principles
These Principles are the Community Visitors Grant Amendment Principles 2012 (No. 1).
2 Commencement
These Principles commence on the day after they are registered.
3 Amendment of Community Visitors Grant Principles 1997
Schedule 1 amends the Community Visitors Grant Principles 1997.
Schedule 1 Amendments
(section 3)
[1] Section 13.3, after definition of community visitors grant agreement
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police certificate, for a person, means a report prepared by the Australian Federal Police or by the police force or police service of a State or Territory about the person’s criminal conviction record.
[2] Section 13.8
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This Part specifies the matters to which the conditions of a community visitors grant must relate.
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This Part specifies the conditions of a community visitors grant.
[3] Section 13.9
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13.9 Condition of community visitors grant
An approved body must not allow a person to become a community visitor unless the approved body is satisfied that:
(a) there is for the person a police certificate that is dated not more than 3 years before the day on which the person first becomes a community visitor; and
(b) the police certificate does not record that the person has been:
(i) convicted of murder or sexual assault; or
(ii) convicted of, and sentenced to imprisonment for, any other form of assault.
[4] After section 13.9
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13.10 Additional condition of community visitors grant
(1)This section applies if a person who wishes to become a community visitor was a citizen or permanent resident of a country other than Australia at any time after the person turned 16.
(2) An approved body must not allow a person to whom this section applies to become a community visitor unless the approved body is satisfied that, in addition to meeting the conditions in section 13.9, the person has made a statutory declaration stating that the person has never been:
(a) convicted of murder or sexual assault; or
(b) convicted of, and sentenced to imprisonment for, any other form of assault.
[5] Schedule 1
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Note
1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See
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