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LETTER OF EXPLANATION SENT TO CLUB SECRETARIES WITH
NATIONAL VOLUNTEER POLICE CHECK RESPONSES
FROM: DISTRICT REGISTRAR, POLICE
CHECKS
Dear Club Secretary,
Please find enclosed responses to applications for
National Volunteer Police Checks from members of your Club. The
responses are separately enveloped and considered the property of
the applicants. Please provide these to those members.
State Legislation deems that the Club
President is ultimately responsible for the management of
the Working with Children (Criminal Record
Checking) Act 2004 in each Club. However, there is need for each
Club to maintain a Register of those members having received a
satisfactory Police Check. I expect it will be the Club Secretary,
who becomes the designated officer, who administers
this.
Before any member (or assisting non-member,
partner, etc.) can participate in Club projects involving young,
aged and disabled citizens, it is necessary for them to provide
evidence to the designated officer of their having received a
Police Check satisfying the requirements of the Act and for
their name to be then entered into the Club Register. They cannot
participate in those projects until this occurs. Similarly, those
Lions who have already obtained a satisfactory Police Check because
of other vocational circumstances do not need to obtain another but
need to provide evidence of the satisfactory nature of the one
obtained to the District Registrar and the designated Club officer
for their entry into the District and Club Registers.
Please be aware that members cannot be
compelled to apply for a Police Check. However, should they not,
they will then not comply with State legislation permitting them to
physically support projects the subject of the
legislation.
Similarly, members are not obliged to tender
to anyone the results of a response to an application for a Police
Check. They may, for instance, not wish to make public the fact
that their Police Check indicates they have a traffic or minor
conviction, records, incidentally, that do not disqualify them
participating in activities the subject of the Working with
Children Act 2004. As before, without providing the information
they will then not comply with the Act and will not be
eligible to physically support projects the subject of the
legislation.
Please contact me if I can assist
further.
Kind regards,
Bruce Hearman.
IPDG
201W2 District Registrar
National Volunteer Police Checks
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