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Children’s Act 2014

Children's worker safety checking - Regulations

32: Regulations prescribing requirements for safety checks

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"Rules for keeping kids safe: what to check and how to do it"

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The Governor-General can make rules about safety checks. You might wonder what these rules are about. These rules can say how to confirm someone's identity, what information to consider during a safety check, and how to do a risk assessment.

The rules can also say that some checks done by a profession's licensing body can be used to satisfy safety checking requirements. They can prescribe forms to use for safety checking and cover other matters related to safety checking.

You can find more information about how these rules are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The rules can be different for various types of workers with children and for different organisations.

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Part 3Children's worker safety checking
Regulations

32Regulations prescribing requirements for safety checks

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations prescribing requirements for safety checks, including the following:

  2. prescribing the way or ways in which a person's identity must be confirmed:
    1. prescribing the information that must be considered in the course of a safety check:
      1. prescribing the manner in which a risk assessment must be carried out, and the content of a risk assessment:
        1. providing that certain forms of checking undertaken by the licensing body of any specified profession or occupation may be treated as satisfying the requirement for safety checking, or for satisfying any 1 or more prescribed requirements for safety checking:
          1. prescribing forms for use in safety checking:
            1. providing for any other matter contemplated by or necessary for giving effect to the provisions of this Act that relate to the requirements for safety checking.

              1. Regulations made under this section may provide that different requirements relating to safety checking do, or do not, apply to or in respect of different—

              2. classes of children's worker; and
                1. specified organisations or classes of specified organisation.

                  1. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

                  Notes
                  • Section 32(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).