Spent Convictions Amendment Regulations 2021 (WA)

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COMMUNITY AND CHILD SERVICES

CN3O1

Spent Convictions Act 1988

Spent Convictions Amendment Regulations 2021

SL 2021/6

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.           Citation

These regulations are the Spent Convictions Amendment
Regulations 2021.

2.           Commencement

These regulations come into operation as follows -

(a)	regulations 1 and 2—on the day on which these regulations are published in the Gazette;
(b)	the rest of the regulations - on the day on which the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Worker Screening) Act 2020 section 85 comes into operation.

3.           Regulations amended

These regulations amend the Spent Convictions Regulations 1992.
4.	Regulation 6A replaced Delete regulation 6A and insert:

prescribed.

6A.	Persons and laws prescribed (Act s. 28(2))
For the purposes of section 28(2) of the Act -

(a)	each person specified in Column 2 of an item in the Table is prescribed in respect of the law specified in Column 3 of that item; and
(b)	each law specified in Column 3 in the Table is

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Table

Column I	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Prescribed person	Prescribed law
The Commissioner	Working with
for Fair Trading	Vulnerable

appointed under the	People
Fair Trading	(Background
(Australian	Checking)
Consumer Law)	Act 2011
Act 1992 (Australian	(Australian
Capital Territory)	Capital Territory)
section 32

2.	The Commissioner	National
of the NDIS Quality	Disability
and Safeguards	Insurance Scheme
Commission referred	Act 2013
to in the National	(Commonwealth)
Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Commonwealth) section 181C
3.	The Children's	Child Protection
Guardian appointed	(Working with
under the Children's	Children)
Guardian Act 2019	Act 2012 (New
(New South Wales)	South Wales)
section 115(2)
4.	The Screening	National
Agency as defined in	Disability
the National	Insurance Scheme
Disability Insurance	(Worker Checks)
Scheme (Worker	Act 2018 (New
Checks) Act 2018	South Wales)
(New South Wales) section 4
5.	The Screening	Care and
Authority	Protection of
established under the	Children
Care and Protection	Act 2007
of Children Act 2007	(Northern
(Northern Territory)	Territory)
section 196(1)

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Column I Column 2 Column 3

Item Prescribed person Prescribed law

6.	The Screening	National
Agency as defined in	Disability
the National	Insurance Scheme
Disability Insurance	(Worker
Scheme (Worker	Clearance)
Clearance) Act 2020	Act 2020
(Northern Territory)	(Northern
section 7(1)	Territory)
7.	The chief executive	Disability
referred to in the	Services Act 2006
Disability Services	(Queensland)
Act 2006 (Queensland) section 40 and as defined in the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 (Queensland) section 33(l 1)
8.	The Queensland	Education
College of Teachers	(Queensland
established under the	College of
Education	Teachers)
(Queensland College	Act 2005
of Teachers)	(Queensland)
Act 2005 (Queensland) section 229(1)

9.	The chief executive	Working with
referred to in the	Children (Risk
Working with	Management and
Children (Risk	Screening)
Management and	Act 2000
Screening) Act 2000	(Queensland)
(Queensland) section 8 and as defined in the Acts Interpretation Act 1954 (Queensland) section 33(l 1)

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Prescribed person	Prescribed law
10.	The central	Child Safety
assessment unit	(Prohibited
established under the	Persons)
Child Safety	Act 2016 (South
(Prohibited Persons)	Australia)
Act 2016 (South Australia) section 20(1)
H.	The central	Disability
assessment unit	Inclusion
established under the	Act 2018 (South
Child Safety	Australia)
(Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (South Australia) section 20(1)
12.	The Registrar	Registration to
appointed under the	Work with
Registration to Work	Vulnerable
with Vulnerable	People Act 2013
People Act 2013	(Tasmania)
(Tasmania) section 11
13.	The Disability	Disability Service
Worker Registration	Safeguards
Board of Victoria	Act 2018
established under the	(Victoria)
Disability Service

Safeguards Act 2018

(Victoria) section 8

14.	The Victorian	Disability Service
Disability Worker	Safeguards
Commission	Act 2018
established under the	(Victoria)
Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018 (Victoria) section 21 (1)

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Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Prescribed person	Prescribed law
15.	The Victorian	Disability Service
Disability Worker	Safeguards
Commissioner	Act 2018
appointed under the	(Victoria)
Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018
(Victoria) section 26(1)
16.	The Secretary as	Worker Screening
defined in the	Act 2020
Worker Screening	(Victoria)
Act 2020 (Victoria)
section 3(1)

N. HAGLEY, Clerk of the Executive Council.