Disability Service Safeguards Amendment Regulations 2021 (Vic)

Disability Service Safeguards Amendment Regulations 2021

S.R. No. 40/2021

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Regulation  Page

1Objective

2Authorising provision

3Commencement

4Principal Regulations

5Objective

6New regulation 7A inserted

7New regulation 9 inserted

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Endnotes

STATUTORY RULES 2021

S.R. No. 40/2021

Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018

Disability Service Safeguards Amendment Regulations 2021

The Governor in Council makes the following Regulations:

Dated: 27 April 2021

Responsible Minister:

LUKE DONNELLAN
Minister for Disability, Ageing and Carers

SAMUAL WALLACE

Acting Clerk of the Executive Council

1Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to amend the Disability Service Safeguards Regulations 2020—

(a)to prescribe offences for the purposes of sections 119(1)(b)(iii), 121(b)(iii), 131(b) and 133(b) of the Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018; and

(b)to prescribe the Secretary to the Department of Justice and Community Safety as an entity from which a criminal history report may be requested.

2Authorising provision

These Regulations are made under section 286 of the Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018.

3Commencement

These Regulations come into operation on 11 May 2021.

4Principal Regulations

In these Regulations, the Disability Service Safeguards Regulations 2020[1] are called the Principal Regulations.

5Objective

(1)In regulation 1(d) of the Principal Regulations, for "samples." substitute "samples;".

(2)After regulation 1(d) of the Principal Regulations insert—

"(e)offences under the Worker Screening Act 2020;

(f)entities from which a criminal history report may be requested.".

6New regulation 7A inserted

After regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations insert—

"7A   Prescribed entity for obtaining criminal history report

For the purpose of section 256(2)(d) of the Act, the Secretary to the Department of Justice and Community Safety is prescribed.".

7New regulation 9 inserted

After regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations insert—

"9   Prescribed offences—NDIS worker screening offences

For the purposes of sections 119(1)(b)(iii), 121(b)(iii), 131(b) and 133(b) of the Act, the following offences are prescribed offences—

(a)an offence specified in Schedule 1 to the Worker Screening Act 2020;

(b)an offence specified in Schedule 3 to the Worker Screening Act 2020.".

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Endnotes

[1] Reg. 4: S.R. No. 36/2020.