21Administration of provisional authorisation

21 Administration of provisional authorisation

21 Administration of provisional authorisation

(1) A designated agency must, when provisionally authorising a person as an authorised carer, make all reasonable efforts to inform the person, and each adult who resides on the same property as the person, of the relevant requirements of the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012.

Note—

See the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012, sections 6(3)(c) and 10 and the regulations under that Act relating to those sections.

(2) A person who is provisionally authorised and who has not, at the time the provisional authorisation takes effect, made an application under section 17 is taken to have a made an application.

(3) It is a condition of a provisional authorisation that the provisionally authorised person must—

(a) submit further information the agency reasonably requires to assess the person’s suitability to continue to be provisionally authorised, and

(b) take all reasonable steps to become authorised.

(4) The Children’s Guardian must monitor a designated agency’s progress in determining a provisionally authorised person’s application made, or taken to have been made, under section 17, if the Children’s Guardian becomes aware the person has been provisionally authorised for more than 3 months.

(5) A designated agency must cancel a provisional authorisation that has been in effect for 3 months or more if directed to do so by the Children’s Guardian by written notice.

(6) The cancellation of the provisional authorisation of a person is taken to be a decision by the designated agency to refuse, under section 18, the person’s application.

(7) The provisional authorisation of a person ceases to have effect when an application by the person for authorisation as an authorised carer is determined under section 18.