9Employer may require registration

9 Employer may require registration

[Section 9 Substituted by No. 18 of 2019, s. 9, Applied:01 Feb 2021]

(1)  Nothing in this Act prevents an employer from requiring an employee to be registered in a category of registration while engaging, on behalf of the employer, in a regulated activity in respect of a member of the class of vulnerable persons to whom the category relates, even though the employee is a person that is not required to be registered to engage in the regulated activity under section 15(2) .

(2)  If an employer requires an employee to be registered as specified in subsection (1) , the provisions of this Act, apart from Part 3 , in relation to registration apply in relation to the employee as if the employee were required by this Act to be so registered.