Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 55C

55C Chief executive’s power to obtain criminal history report

(1) The chief executive may ask the commissioner of the police service for a written report about the criminal history of a person if the authorised officer reasonably suspects the person may be present at the place when the authorised officer enters the place under division 1 .

(2) The commissioner must give the report to the chief executive.

(3) However, the report is required to contain only criminal history that is in the commissioner’s possession or to which the commissioner has access.

(4) The chief executive must examine the report and identify, to the extent it is reasonably practicable to do so, offences involving the use of a weapon or violence against a person.

(5) The chief executive may give the authorised officer information in the report about the offences identified under subsection (4) .