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COMMUNITY SERVICES (ABORIGINES) ACT 1984 - SECT 89

89 Criminal history checks

(1) A regulation may provide for the disclosure by the commissioner of the police service to a stated entity of a person's criminal history for deciding whether the person is suitable to be nominated as a member.

(2) The entity must--

(a) not use the information for any purpose other than for the purpose mentioned in subsection (1); and
(b) as soon as practicable after the information is no longer needed for the purpose, destroy it.

(3) In this section--

criminal history, of a person, means the convictions, other than spent convictions, recorded against the person for offences, in Queensland or elsewhere, whether before or after the commencement of 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.


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