DISABILITY ACT 2006 - SECT 202AD Disclosure of information about worker screening

DISABILITY ACT 2006 - SECT 202AD

    (1)     The Secretary is authorised to transfer or disclose any information about worker screening to the following in relation to a person who provided, provides, or seeks to provide, disability services or services in accordance with an NDIS plan—

        (a)     the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission;

        (b)     the Disability Worker Registration Board;

        (c)     the Victorian Disability Worker Commission;

        (d)     the Victorian Disability Worker Commissioner;

        (e)     the Secretary within the meaning of the Worker Screening Act 2020 , for the purposes of performing functions in relation to screening checks under that Act;

        (f)     an NDIS worker screening unit within the meaning of the Worker Screening Act 2020 ;

        (g)     the relevant disability service provider;

        (h)     the relevant registered NDIS provider.

    (2)     The Secretary may transfer or disclose information about worker screening to an entity referred to in subsection (1) at the Secretary's own initiative or on request of the entity.

    (3)     For the purposes of this section—

"information about worker screening" means one or more of the following—

        (a)     whether or not the person is the subject of a prohibition order in relation to health services or disability services or other services involving the care of children that is made under another Act;

        (b)     whether or not the Secretary has information relating to the person's suitability to provide disability services to persons with a disability or services under the NDIS to NDIS participants or DSOA clients and, if so, that information which includes but is not limited to the following—

              (i)     whether or not a person has been assessed as posing an unacceptable risk to persons with a disability, NDIS participants or DSOA clients;

              (ii)     whether or not a notification or complaint has been made about the person that is relevant to the person's suitability to provide disability services to persons with a disability or services under the NDIS to NDIS participants or DSOA clients;

              (iii)     details of any notification or complaint or investigation made into a notification or complaint referred to in subparagraph (ii);

              (iv)     whether or not the person has been screened in relation to the person's suitability to provide disability services to persons with a disability or services under the NDIS to NDIS participants or DSOA clients.

S. 202AE inserted by No. 9/2023 s. 105.