514EApproved carers—expiry and renewal of approvals

514E Approved carers—expiry and renewal of approvals (1) The director-general must not issue an approved carer approval for longer than 5 years. (2) A person may apply to the director-general to renew the approval for a period not longer than 5 years. (3) The application must be— (a) in writing; and (b) received by the director-general at least 30 days before the approval expires. (4) However, the director-general may extend the time for making an Note A person may apply for the time to be extended, and the time may be extended, even though the time has ended (see Legislation Act, s 151C). (5) If a person applies to renew an approval under this section, the approval remains in force until the application is decided. (6) If a person’s approval expires, any of the following authorisations held by the person also end: (a) authorisation as a kinship carer under section 516 (Kinship carer—specific parental authority); (b) authorisation as a foster carer under section 518 (Foster carer— specific parental authority).

514EA Approved carers—revocation of approval (1) The director-general may revoke a person’s approval as an approved carer if satisfied that the person— (a) is no longer an appropriate person to care for children or young people; or (b) has not adequately cared for or protected a child or young (c) has failed to comply with a direction of the director-general in exercising daily care or long-term care responsibility for any (2) The director-general may also revoke a person’s approval if the person asks the director-general to revoke the approval. (3) Before revoking a person’s approval under subsection (1), the (a) give the person written notice of the director-general’s intention to revoke the approval, including the director-general’s reasons; and (b) tell the person that the person may make a submission, in writing, to the director-general about the notice not later than 14 days after the day the notice is given to the person; and (c) if the person makes a submission—consider the submission. (4) After considering any submission, the director-general may consider (a) revoke the approval; or Note A decision under this paragraph is a reviewable decision (see s 839). (b) revoke the notice of intention to revoke.

(5) This section is in addition to the Legislation Act, section 180 (Power Note Under the Legislation Act, s 180, power given by a law to make a