Victorian Numbered Acts

WORKING WITH CHILDREN AMENDMENT ACT 2007 (NO. 56 OF 2007) - SECT 17

After section 35(3) of the Working with Children Act 2005 insert —

    "(3A)     A person is not guilty of an offence against subsection (1) if, at the time the offence is alleged to have been committed, the worker     had been given a negative notice by the Secretary and had applied to VCAT—

        (a)     under section 26(1) for an assessment notice to be given to him or her; or

        (b)     under section 26(5) for review of a decision of the Secretary to give him or her a negative notice—

and the decision of the Secretary was the subject of an order by VCAT staying the operation of the decision.".