Disability Service Safeguards Act 2018
131Grounds on which interim prohibition order may be made
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131 Grounds on which interim prohibition order may be made
The Commissioner may make an interim prohibition order if the Commissioner is satisfied that it is necessary to make the order to avoid a serious risk to the life, health, safety or welfare of a person or the health, safety or welfare of the public and one or more of the following grounds exists—
(a) the Commissioner reasonably believes that the unregistered disability worker has contravened an approved code of conduct;
(b) the unregistered disability worker has been convicted or found guilty of a prescribed offence;
S. 131(c) substituted by Nos 19/2019 s. 228(1), 34/2020 s. 200.
(c) the unregistered disability worker has been given an exclusion or has had a clearance suspended or revoked;
S. 131(d) amended by No. 19/2019 s. 228(2), substituted by No. 34/2020 s. 200.
(d) the unregistered disability worker has been given an interim exclusion;
(e) the disability worker is the subject of a prohibition order in relation to health services or disability services or other services involving the care of children that is made under another Act or a banning order issued under section 73ZN of the NDIS Act.