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EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 2.6.12B National criminal history checks and information and testing—registered teachers and applications for registration under Division 3 and this Division

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 2.6.12B

National criminal history checks and information and testing—registered teachers and applications for registration under Division 3 and this Division

    (1)     If the applicant is a teacher registered under Division 3 or 4 on whom a national criminal history check has been conducted in the previous 5 years—

        (a)     the Institute is not required to conduct a national criminal history check on the applicant; and

        (b)     the requirements of section 2.6.12A(2)(b)(iv), (v) and (vi) do not apply to the application for registration.

    (2)     If the applicant makes, at the same time as the application under section 2.6.12A, an application for registration as a teacher under Division 3—

        (a)     the requirements of section 2.6.12A(2)(b)(iv), (v) and (vi) do not apply to the application for registration under this Division; and

        (b)     the applicant is not required to provide information or submit to testing under section 2.6.12A(7) if that information or testing has been provided or submitted to in relation to the application under section 2.6.7(4).

    (3)     In considering an application for registration under this Division made at the same time as an application for registration under Division 3, the Institute

        (a)     must take into account a national criminal history check conducted under section 2.6.7(3A); and

S. 2.6.12B(3)(b) amended by No. 4/2017 s. 12(4)(a).

        (b)     may take into account any information provided or testing submitted to under section 2.6.7(4); and

S. 2.6.12B(3)(c) inserted by No. 4/2017 s. 12(4)(b).

        (c)     may take into account a finding, under Part 5A of the Child Wellbeing and Safety Act 2005 , that the applicant has committed reportable conduct.

S. 2.6.12C inserted by No. 19/2014 s. 47.