DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 103 Clearance holder to notify if no longer carrying out work as volunteer or on unpaid basis

DISABILITY SERVICES ACT 2006 - SECT 103

103 Clearance holder to notify if no longer carrying out work as volunteer or on unpaid basis

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a person holds a clearance that is not suspended; and

(b) during the term of the clearance, the person is or was—

(i) engaged to carry out disability work only as a volunteer; or

(ii) carrying out disability work as an NDIS sole trader or State sole trader only on an unpaid basis; and

(c) either of the following changes happens—

(i) the person is engaged to carry out disability work other than as a volunteer;

(ii) the person starts carrying out disability work as an NDIS sole trader or State sole trader for financial reward.

(2) The person must, within 14 days after the change happens—

(a) give the chief executive a notice, in the approved form and in an approved way, about the change; and

(b) if the person is required to pay the prescribed application fee under subsection (3) —pay the prescribed application fee to the chief executive.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

Note—

See section 106 in relation to the chief executive issuing a replacement clearance card because of the change.

(3) The person must pay the prescribed application fee if the disability worker screening application in relation to which the clearance was issued was made on the basis that the person was—

(a) engaged, or to be engaged, to carry out disability work only as a volunteer; or

(b) carrying out, or proposing to carry out, disability work as an NDIS sole trader or State sole trader only on an unpaid basis.

(4) In this section—


"prescribed application fee" means the fee prescribed by regulation for a disability worker screening application made by a person—

(a) for a person who gives a notice under subsection (2) for a change mentioned in subsection (1) (c) (i) —engaged to carry out disability work other than as a volunteer; or

(b) for a person who gives a notice under subsection (2) for a change mentioned in subsection (1) (c) (ii) —carrying out disability work as an NDIS sole trader or State sole trader for financial reward.

"unpaid basis" , for carrying out disability work, means the work is carried out other than for financial reward.