South Australian Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN'S PROTECTION ACT 1993 - SCHEDULE 1

Schedule 1—Transitional provisions

1—Responsible authority to obtain criminal history

        (1)         If an organisation to which section 8B of this Act applies immediately after the commencement of section 7 of the Children's Protection (Implementation of Report Recommendations) Amendment Act 2009 was not an organisation to which section 8B applied immediately before that commencement, the responsible authority for the organisation must ensure that, during the period prescribed by regulation in relation to the organisation or organisations of that class, an assessment of the criminal history of each person occupying or acting in a prescribed position (whether as an employee, volunteer, agent, contractor or subcontractor) in the organisation is undertaken in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of section 8B.

Maximum penalty: $10 000.

        (2)         The regulations may exempt organisations, persons and positions, or particular classes of organisations, persons and positions, from the application of this clause.

        (3)         In this clause, terms used have meanings consistent with the meanings they have in section 8B.