188Annual statement

188 Annual statement

(1) For the purposes of section 186(3)(b)(iii), an annual statement accompanying an application for renewal of registration must include—

(a) a declaration by the applicant that the applicant—

(i) does not have an impairment that detrimentally affects the applicant's capacity to practise as a disability worker in a safe manner; and

(ii) has met any recency of practice requirements stated in a relevant approved registration standard; and

(iii) has completed the continuing professional development that the applicant was required to undertake during the applicant's preceding period of registration in accordance with an approved registration standard; and

(iv) has not practised as a disability worker during the preceding period of registration without appropriate professional indemnity insurance arrangements being in place; and

(v) unless appropriate professional indemnity insurance arrangements are in place in relation to the applicant, if the applicant's registration is renewed, the applicant will not practise as a disability worker; and

(b) details of any change in the applicant's criminal history that occurred during the applicant's preceding period of registration; and

S. 188(1)(ba) inserted by No. 9/2023 s. 137.

(ba) if the applicant has been given an NDIS clearance, details of any suspension, revocation, expiry or surrender of the NDIS clearance; and

(c) details of any notifications or complaints made under this Act about the applicant to Board or the Commission; and

(d) details of any notifications or complaints made about the applicant to—

(i) the Health Complaints Commissioner; or

S. 188(1)(d)(ii) amended by No. 39/2022 s. 822(2) (as amended by No. 20/2023 s. 49(11)).

(ii) the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission; or

(iii) the Public Advocate; or

(iv) any entity of the Commonwealth or another State or a Territory that is equivalent to an entity referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii); or

(v) the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission; or

(vi) a registration authority within the meaning of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law; or

(vii) a prescribed body; and

(e) any other information required by an approved registration standard.

(2) Subsection (1)(a)(ii), (iii) and (iv), (c) and (d) do not apply to an applicant who is applying for the renewal of non-practising registration.