Australia NDIS Worker Screening Rules 2018 s14: s 14 and s 14A Use the exceptions only on their conditions, and never where no card, no start applies

A person without a clearance may fill a risk assessed role only under an exception: (a) the person is in the process of obtaining a clearance, is appropriately supervised by a cleared person, the provider is implementing its s 12 risk management plan, and the law of the jurisdiction allows work while an application is pending; (b) the provider is complying with the Part 4 transitional arrangements and the person has no interim bar, exclusion, suspension or cancelled clearance; or (c) the person is a secondary school student on formal work experience directly supervised by a cleared worker (s 14(1)); individual providers have the equivalent exceptions (s 14(2)). Under s 14A the pending-application exception does not apply where the jurisdiction's law forbids working while an application is undecided and the person has no acceptable check for that jurisdiction.