Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 318R

318R Investigation of applicant suitability or disqualifying events

(1) The chief executive may investigate a person or another entity to help decide whether—

(a) an applicant is suitable to be a registered suitable operator; or

(b) a disqualifying event has happened in relation to the person or entity.

(2) The chief executive may obtain a report on the person or entity from an administering authority of another State under a corresponding law about a matter mentioned in subsection (1) .

(3) The commissioner of the police service must, if asked by the chief executive, give the chief executive a written report about any convictions, other than spent convictions, for environmental offences recorded against the person or entity obtained from—

(a) information in the commissioner’s possession; and

(b) information the commissioner can reasonably obtain by asking officials administering police services in other Australian jurisdictions.

(4) In this section—

"spent conviction" means a conviction—

(a) for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired under that Act; and

(b) that is not revived as prescribed by section 11 of that Act.