31Approved counselling services

31 Approved counselling services

31 Approved counselling services

(1) The Commissioner may—

(a) approve professional counsellors who may provide approved counselling services for the purposes of this Act, or

(b) in the case of counselling services to be provided to a victim of an act of violence or act of modern slavery, or a family victim of a road crime, who is resident outside Australia—give approval for the victim to select a professional counsellor of the victim’s choice to provide the victim with approved counselling services for the purposes of this Act.

(2) The Commissioner may—

(a) suspend or revoke an approval, and

(b) make an approval subject to conditions, and

(c) vary or revoke any condition of an approval or impose additional conditions on an approval.

s 31: Am 2018 No 30, Sch 5.7[7]; 2024 No 92, Sch 1[20].