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Schedule 2—Transitional provisions relating to NDIS worker check clearances
1—Interpretation
(1) In this Schedule, unless the contrary intention appears—
assessment of relevant history means an assessment of relevant history conducted under the Disability Services Act 1993 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this clause) by an authorised screening unit;
authorised screening unit means a person or body who was, at the relevant time, an authorised screening unit within the meaning of the Disability Services (Assessment of Relevant History) Regulations 2014;
(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, a term or phrase used in this Schedule that is defined in Part 5A of the Act has the same meaning as in that Part.
2—Certain applications for assessments of relevant history taken to be application for NDIS worker check clearance
(1) This clause applies to an application for an assessment of relevant history made to an authorised screening unit before the commencement of this clause but not determined before such commencement.
(2) An application to which this clause applies will, for the purposes of Part 5A of the Act, be taken to be an application to the central assessment unit for an NDIS worker check clearance under that Part.
3—Recognition of certain assessments of relevant history as NDIS worker check clearance
(1) An assessment of relevant history clearing a specified person to work with people with disability (however described) conducted within the 3 years preceding the commencement of this clause will be taken to be an NDIS worker check clearance in respect of the person granted under Part 5A of the Act.
(2) However, this clause ceases to apply to an NDIS worker check clearance referred to in subclause (1) in respect of a person if any of the following occurs:
(a) the person becomes a prohibited person (within the meaning of Part 6) or a disqualified or presumptively disqualified person; or
(b) an NDIS worker check clearance is conducted in relation to the person under Part 5A of the Act, or under a law of the Commonwealth or another State or Territory; or
(c) 3 years elapses after the date on which the assessment of relevant history to which the NDIS worker check clearance relates was undertaken,
and the NDIS worker check clearance will, by force of this clause, be cancelled.
Legislative history
Notes
• In this version provisions that are uncommenced appear in italics.
• Please note—References in the legislation to other legislation or instruments or to titles of bodies or offices are not automatically updated as part of the program for the revision and publication of legislation and therefore may be obsolete.
• Earlier versions of this Act (historical versions) are listed at the end of the legislative history.
• For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or www.legislation.sa.gov.au.
Legislation amended by principal Act
The Disability Inclusion Act 2018 amended the following:
Carers Recognition Act 2005
Disability Services Act 1993
Intervention Orders (Prevention of Abuse) Act 2009
Principal Act and amendments
New entries appear in bold.
Year
No
Title
Assent
Commencement
Disability Inclusion Act 2018
14.6.2018
1.7.2018 (Gazette 28.6.2018 p2618) except Sch 1 (cl 3)—1.2.2021 (Gazette 17.12.2020 p5743) and except Pt 6 & Sch 1 (cl 5)—uncommenced
Statutes Amendment (Screening) Act 2019
16.5.2019
Pt 4 (ss 18 to 20 & 24)—1.2.2021 (Gazette 17.12.2020 p5744); ss 21 to 23 & 25—16.5.2021 (s 7(5) Acts Interpretation Act 1915)
Disability Inclusion (Restrictive Practices—NDIS) Amendment Act 2021
20.5.2021
30.5.2022 (Gazette 12.5.2022 p1123)
Disability Inclusion (Review Recommendations) Amendment Act 2024
27.6.2024
19.8.2025 (Gazette 14.8.2025 p3219)
Criminal Law Consolidation (Mental Competence) Amendment Act 2025
27.3.2025
Sch 1 (cl 3)—14.7.2025 (Gazette 5.6.2025 p1385)
Provisions amended
New entries appear in bold.
Provision
How varied
Commencement
Long title
amended by 9/2019 s 18
Pt 1
s 3
s 3(1)
barrier
inserted by 22/2024 s 3
central assessment unit
inserted by 9/2019 s 19(1)
Registrar
inserted by 9/2019 s 19(2)
Tribunal
inserted by 18/2021 s 4
Pt 2
ss 7A and 7B
inserted by 22/2024 s 4
s 8
amended by 22/2024 s 5(1), (2)
s 9
s 9(1)
amended by 22/2024 s 6(1), (2)
s 9(5a)—(5c)
inserted by 22/2024 s 6(3)
Pt 3
s 10
s 10(1)
amended by 22/2024 s 7
Pt 4
s 13
s 13(3)
amended by 22/2024 s 8(1), (2)
s 13(4)
amended by 22/2024 s 8(3)
s 14
s 14(1)
amended by 22/2024 s 9(1), (2)
s 14(3)
inserted by 22/2024 s 9(3)
s 15
s 15(3)
inserted by 22/2024 s 10
Pt 5
s 16
s 16(3)
amended by 22/2024 s 11(1), (2)
s 16(4)
amended by 22/2024 s 11(3)
s 17
s 17(1)
amended by 22/2024 s 12(1), (2)
s 17(1a)
inserted by 22/2024 s 12(5)
s 17(2)
amended by 22/2024 s 12(3), (4)
s 18
s 18(3)
inserted by 22/2024 s 13
Pt 5A
inserted by 9/2019 s 20
s 18A
s 18A(4)
amended by 12/2025 Sch 1 cl 3
14.7.2025
Pt 6
s 19
s 19(1)
assessable information
inserted by 9/2019 s 21(1)
records management system
inserted by 9/2019 s 21(2)
unique identifier
inserted by 9/2019 s 21(3)
ss 22A—22E
inserted by 9/2019 s 22
s 23
s 23(2)
amended by 9/2019 s 23(1), (2)
Pt 6A
inserted by 18/2021 s 5
Pt 10
s 33
s 33(2)
amended by 9/2019 s 24(1), (2)
s 33(3)
amended by 9/2019 s 24(3)
Sch 1
Pts 1—4
omitted under Legislation Revision and Publication Act 2002
Sch 2
inserted by 9/2019 s 25
Historical versions
14.7.2025