Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person can not be appointed as a member if the person—
(a) has a conviction, other than a spent conviction, for an indictable offence or an offence against this Act; or
(b) has been a member for at least 6 consecutive years and the proposed appointment would happen less than 1 year after the day the person was last a member.
(2) A person who is a member can not be reappointed as a member if the reappointment would result in the person continuing as a member for more than 6 consecutive years.
(3) 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.