Queensland Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION (QUEENSLAND COLLEGE OF TEACHERS) ACT 2005 - SECT 14

(1) A person, other than an excluded person, may apply to the college for any of the following—

(a) full registration;

(b) provisional registration;

(c) permission to teach.

(2) The application must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) be accompanied by each of the following—

(i) the documents or information on which the person relies to establish the person meets the eligibility requirements, other than the eligibility requirement mentioned in section 8(1)(c) or section 9(1)(c);

(ii) other documents or information, identified in the approved form, reasonably required by the college to decide the application;

(iii) any registration application fee or permission to teach application fee prescribed under a regulation;

(iv) the registration fee or permission to teach fee prescribed under a regulation; and

(c) be accompanied by the following—

(i) for an applicant who is the holder of a positive notice under the Commissioner's Act—

(A) if there is no police information about the applicant—the CCYPCG fee; or

(B) if there is police information about the applicant—the criminal history check fee;

(ii) for another applicant—the criminal history check fee.

(3) Also, the application must comply with any other requirements prescribed under a regulation.

(4) The approved form may require disclosure of police information about the person.

(5) If the approved form requires the disclosure of police information about the person, the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 does not apply to the disclosure.

(6) Information contained in or accompanying the application must, if required by the college, be verified by statutory declaration.

(7) Subsection (8) applies if—

(a) the person is the holder of a CCYPCG positive notice; and

(b) the application was accompanied by the CCYPCG fee and not the criminal history check fee; and

(c) before the application is decided, the college—

(i) is given advice by the children's commissioner under section 15D(2)(c); or

(ii) otherwise becomes aware there is police information about the person.

(8) The college may—

(a) by notice ask the person to pay the criminal history check fee; and

(b) defer deciding the application until the criminal history check fee is paid.

(9) For subsection (8), it is immaterial whether or not there was police information about the person when the application was made.

(10) In this section—

CCYPCG fee means the fee prescribed under a regulation under the Commissioner's Act for obtaining information from the children's commissioner under section 15D.