Worker Screening Act 2020
23NDIS category A applications
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23 NDIS category A applications
(1) An application for an NDIS check is an NDIS category A application if it is in respect of a person—
S. 23(1)(a) amended by No. 28/2025 s. 43.
(a) who is subject to reporting obligations imposed by the Sex Offenders Registration Act 2004; or
(b) who is subject to a supervision order, a detention order or an emergency detention order; or
(c) who has at any time been convicted or found guilty of an NDIS category A offence specified in clauses 1 to 58 of Schedule 1 if the conduct constituting that offence occurred when the person was an adult; or
(d) subject to section 25(2), who has at any time been convicted or found guilty of an NDIS category A offence specified in clauses 59 to 71 of Schedule 1 if the conduct constituting the offence occurred when the person was an adult.
(2) For the purposes of this section, if the conduct constituting an offence occurs between 2 dates, one on which the person was a child and one on which the person was an adult, that conduct occurs when the person was an adult.
S. 24 amended by No. 58/2025 s. 125(Sch. 2 item 1.32).