Aged Care (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2024 (109 of 2024)

Schedule 1   Consequential amendments

National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013

8   After subsection 181Y(6)

Insert:

(6A) The NDIS worker screening database may also include the following information:

(a) information relating to persons (each of whom is a screening applicant ) who:

(i) have made applications (each of which is a screening application ) for an aged care worker screening check; and

(ii) are identified (in screening applications or otherwise) as seeking to work with people with disability;

and information relating to those applications;

(b) information relating to each screening applicant in respect of whom a screening application is no longer being considered and the reasons for this;

(c) information relating to each screening applicant in respect of whom a decision (a clearance decision ) (however described) is in force, under an aged care worker screening law, to the effect that the person, in working, or seeking to work, with individuals accessing funded aged care services does not pose a risk to such individuals and information relating to the decision;

(d) information relating to any decisions made under an aged care worker screening law, in relation to each screening applicant, while the screening applicant's application is pending;

(e) information relating to each screening applicant in respect of whom a decision (an exclusion decision ) (however described) is in force, under an aged care worker screening law, to the effect that the person, in working, or seeking to work, with individuals accessing funded aged care services does pose a risk to such individuals and information relating to the decision;

(f) if a clearance decision or an exclusion decision specifies the period for which the decision is in force - information setting out that period;

(g) information relating to each person in respect of whom a decision (however described), under an aged care worker screening law, suspending a clearance decision has been made and information relating to the suspension;

(h) information relating to each person in respect of whom a decision (however described), under an aged care worker screening law, revoking a clearance decision or an exclusion decision has been made and information relating to the revocation;

(i) information relating to employers or potential employers of persons who have made screening applications.