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EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 164

EDUCATION AND CARE SERVICES NATIONAL REGULATIONS 2012 - REG 164

164 .         Requirement for notice in relation to persons at residence

        (1)         The approved provider of a family day care service must require each family day care educator to notify the provider of —

            (a)         any new person aged 18 years or over who resides, or intends to reside, at the educator’s family day care residence; and

            (b)         any circumstance relating to a person who resides, or intends to reside, at the educator’s family day care residence that may affect whether the person is a fit and proper person to be in the company of children.

        Penalty: $2000.

        (2)         The family day care educator must notify the approved provider of —

            (a)         any new person aged 18 years or over who resides, or intends to reside, at the educator’s family day care residence; and

            (b)         any circumstance relating to a person who resides, or intends to reside, at the educator’s family day care residence that may affect whether the person is a fit and proper person to be in the company of children.

        Penalty: $2000.

        Note for this regulation:

                A compliance direction may be issued for failure to comply with subregulation (1).

        (3)         For the purposes of subregulations (1)(b) and (2)(b), a circumstance that may affect whether a person is a fit and proper person to be in the company of children includes any of the following —

            (a)         the person is charged with or convicted of any of the following —

                  (i)         an offence of a sexual nature;

                  (ii)         an offence of a violent nature;

                  (iii)         an offence involving drugs;

                  (iv)         an offence involving a weapon;

            (b)         the rejection of the person’s application for any of the following, or the revocation or suspension of any of the following held by the person —

                  (i)         a working with vulnerable people check;

                  (ii)         a working with vulnerable people registration;

                  (iii)         a working with children check;

                  (iv)         a working with children card;

            (c)         the person is prohibited from working with children.

        (4)         A person who provides notification under subregulation (1)(b) or (2)(b) is not required to provide specific details of the circumstance that they consider may affect whether a person is a fit and proper person to be in the company of children.

        [Regulation 164 amended: Gazette 28 Sep 2018 p. 3640‑1; SL 2023/186 r. 27.]