Bill
Crimes Amendment (National Disability Insurance Scheme—Worker Screening) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-05-22. Social Services portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Social Services
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-02-15
- second reading — 2018-02-15
- second reading — 2018-02-28
- second reading — 2018-02-28
- third reading — 2018-02-28
- introduced — 2018-03-19
- second reading — 2018-03-19
- second reading — 2018-05-10
- second reading — 2018-05-10
- third reading — 2018-05-10
- passed — 2018-05-10
- royal assent — 2018-05-22
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2018-02-15.
This bill would let agencies share and consider certain criminal records of people in disability services under the NDIS.
It creates an exception to the usual rules on spent convictions under Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914.
State and territory worker screening units would use the disclosed information to decide if someone is fit to work in the NDIS.
- Creates an exception for convictions of people employed or applying to work with NDIS participants.
- Allows Commonwealth, state and territory agencies to disclose and consider those convictions.
- Enables state and territory worker screening units to assess suitability for NDIS work.
People who work or seek work with people with disability in the NDIS, and Commonwealth, state and territory agencies involved in worker screening.
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