13Updating information on register—the Act, s 85(2)(b) and (c)

13 Updating information on register—the Act, s 85(2)(b) and (c)

13 Updating information on register—the Act, s 85(2)(b) and (c)

(1) A residential care provider must update information on the residential care workers register about a relevant person as soon as practicable after becoming aware the information is incorrect or incomplete.

(2) The residential care provider must, as soon as practicable after updating the register, notify the relevant person that the information has been updated.

(3) A residential care provider must give a relevant person written notice of the reasons for not updating the residential care workers register if—

(a) the relevant person makes a written request to the provider to update the information, and

(b) the provider decides to not update the register because the information is not incomplete or incorrect.

(4) If a residential care provider is incapable of updating information on the residential care workers register as required by this section, the Children’s Guardian may—

(a) update the information on the register on the provider’s behalf, and

(b) notify both the person to whom the information relates and the provider that the information on the register was updated.

(5) This section applies in addition to the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998, section 15.

(6) In this section—

relevant person, for a residential care provider, means a person whose information the residential care provider is required to have access to under the Act, section 86(2).

s 13: Subst 2022 (480), Sch 1[6].