Section 5 - National Disability Insurance Scheme (Worker Checks) Regulation 2020 - Presumptively disqualifying offences

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5 Presumptively disqualifying offences

The following are prescribed as presumptively disqualifying offences for the purposes of the Act—

(a) an offence specified in Part 2, 3 or 4 of Schedule 1 if it is not a disqualifying offence under clause 4(b), (c) or (d),

(b) the common law offences of rape and attempted rape if they are not disqualifying offences under clause 4(e),

(c) an offence specified in Part 1 of Schedule 2,

(d) an offence specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2 if the victim of the offence was a child or vulnerable person,

(e) an offence specified in Part 3 of Schedule 2 if—

(i) the victim of the offence was a child or vulnerable person, and

(ii) at the time of the offence, the offender provided supports or services to the child or vulnerable person because of the vulnerability of the child or vulnerable person, and

(iii) at the time of the offence, the offender was not a relative of the child or vulnerable person,

(f) an offence under a law of another State or Territory or the Commonwealth that consists of conduct that, if it occurred in New South Wales, would constitute a presumptively disqualifying offence under this clause.