Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subsection (3) applies if—
(a) a disciplinary body conducts disciplinary proceedings about a disciplinary matter concerning the conduct of a person; and
(b) after the disciplinary proceedings, the disciplinary body takes disciplinary action in relation to the person.
(2) Subsection (3) also applies if the board decides—
(a) under the immediate suspension part—to suspend a person's registration (immediate suspension); or
(b) under section 311—to suspend, cancel, or impose a condition on a person's registration under section 311 (a section 311 action) because of a similar action under foreign law (the foreign law action).
(3) If the board reasonably believes the action, immediate suspension or section 311 action may be relevant to the children's commissioner's functions or powers under chapter 8 of the commissioner's Act, the board must give written notice about it to the children's commissioner.
(4) A notice under subsection (3) must state the following—
(a) the person's name and address;
(b) the person's date and place of birth;
(c) that the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action has been taken against the person, without stating anything further about the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action.
(5) Subsection (6) applies if the children's commissioner—
(a) requests further information about the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action; and
(b) notifies the board that the person is an applicant for, or holder of, a prescribed notice or exemption notice under the commissioner's Act.
(6) The board must give the children's commissioner a written notice stating the following—
(a) for a notice about disciplinary action—the form of disciplinary action taken;
(b) when the conduct happened that constituted a ground for the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action;
(c) the nature of the conduct that constituted a ground for the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action;
(d) any other information about the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action the board considers may be relevant to employment screening under the commissioner's Act, chapter 8, including, for example, details about the nature of the disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action.
(7) If a written notice is given under subsection (3) or (6) about a disciplinary matter, ground for the immediate suspension or section 311 action relating to a particular child, the notice must not contain information that identifies, or is likely to identify, the child.
(8) If the board gives the children's commissioner information under subsection (6) about disciplinary action, immediate suspension or section 311 action, and the action or suspension is set aside on review or appeal, the board must notify the commissioner of the following—
(a) that the action or suspension has been set aside;
(b) the reasons given by the entity that set the action or suspension aside for setting it aside.
(9) In this section—
children's commissioner means the Commissioner for Children and Young People and Child Guardian under the commissioner's Act.
commissioner's Act means the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000.