Working with Children Check Act 2000
sec.489Other existing eligibility applications
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sec.489 Other existing eligibility applications
This section applies to an application for an eligibility declaration ( existing application ) that— was made under section 120F of the unamended Act by a person other than a new relevant disqualified person; and has not been decided or withdrawn at the commencement. The existing application is taken to be an eligibility application under section 178 ( section 178 application ) and chapter 8, part 4, division 2 applies to the application. Anything done or existing in relation to the existing application is taken to have been done or existing in relation to the section 178 application. The commissioner has given the applicant a notice asking for stated information, including by way of a submission. The notice is taken to have been given in relation to the section 178 application. The commissioner has requested police information about the applicant from the police commissioner. The request is taken to have been made in relation to the section 178 application. Subsection (3) applies only to the extent the thing can be done or in existence in relation to the section 178 application under chapter 8, part 4, division 2. s 489 ins 2010 No. 5 s 64 (sec.489-ssec.1) This section applies to an application for an eligibility declaration ( existing application ) that— was made under section 120F of the unamended Act by a person other than a new relevant disqualified person; and has not been decided or withdrawn at the commencement. (sec.489-ssec.2) The existing application is taken to be an eligibility application under section 178 ( section 178 application ) and chapter 8, part 4, division 2 applies to the application. (sec.489-ssec.3) Anything done or existing in relation to the existing application is taken to have been done or existing in relation to the section 178 application. The commissioner has given the applicant a notice asking for stated information, including by way of a submission. The notice is taken to have been given in relation to the section 178 application. The commissioner has requested police information about the applicant from the police commissioner. The request is taken to have been made in relation to the section 178 application. (sec.489-ssec.4) Subsection (3) applies only to the extent the thing can be done or in existence in relation to the section 178 application under chapter 8, part 4, division 2.
- (a) was made under section 120F of the unamended Act by a person other than a new relevant disqualified person; and
- (b) has not been decided or withdrawn at the commencement.
- 1 The commissioner has given the applicant a notice asking for stated information, including by way of a submission. The notice is taken to have been given in relation to the section 178 application.
- 2 The commissioner has requested police information about the applicant from the police commissioner. The request is taken to have been made in relation to the section 178 application.