CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 134 Process to renew a certificate

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 134

134 Process to renew a certificate

(1) Before a certificate ends, the holder may apply to the chief executive to renew the certificate.

(2) The application must be in the approved form.

(3) The approved form may require the disclosure of a change to any of the following information that has not been previously notified to the chief executive—

(a) the applicant’s criminal history, domestic violence history and traffic history;

(b) the membership of the applicant’s household;

(c) information of which the applicant is aware, or that the applicant reasonably suspects, about the criminal history, domestic violence history and traffic history of a member of the applicant’s household;

(d) information about whether the applicant and each adult member of the applicant’s household either—

(i) holds a working with children authority or negative notice; or

(ii) has made a working with children check application;

(e) if the applicant or an adult member of the applicant’s household holds a working with children authority—the expiry date for the authority.

(4) The application must be signed by the applicant and each adult member of the applicant’s household.

Note—

Under division 7 , the chief executive may obtain information about the applicant and adult members of the applicant’s household direct from the police commissioner and the chief executive for transport.

(5) If the chief executive decides to grant the application, the chief executive must issue a new certificate and give it to the applicant.

(6) The matters stated in the certificate must include the following—

(a) that it is a renewed certificate;

(b) the approved carer’s name;

(c) whether the carer is an approved foster carer or approved kinship carer;

(d) for a kinship carer certificate—the name of the child for whom the carer is approved;

(e) any conditions of the certificate;

(f) the day of its issue;

(g) the day on which it is due to expire (the
"expiry day" ).

(7) The conditions may only include conditions that applied immediately before the renewal.

Note—

The conditions may be changed by amending the certificate under division 4 .

(8) The expiry day must be—

(a) for a foster carer certificate—3 years from the day of issue; or

(b) for a kinship carer certificate—not more than 3 years from the day of issue.

(9) Subject to this Act, the certificate has effect until the expiry day.