Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The administering authority may investigate a person to help it decide whether—
(a) the person is a suitable person to hold, or continue to hold, an environmental authority; or
(aa) the person is a suitable person to be, or continue to be, a registered operator; or
(b) a disqualifying event has happened in relation to the person.
(2) The administering authority may obtain a report on the person 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 authority, give it a written report about any convictions for environmental offences recorded against the person 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) However, subsection (3) is subject to the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986.