Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) To help decide whether a person is suitable for nomination for appointment as a member, the Minister or the council (the nominator) may ask the commissioner of the police service for a written report about the person's criminal history.
(2) However, the nominator may make a request about a person under subsection (1) only if the person has given the nominator written consent for the request.
(3) If asked by the nominator, the commissioner of the police service must give the nominator a written report about the criminal history of the person.
(4) The duty imposed on the commissioner of the police service applies only to information in the commissioner's possession or to which the commissioner has access.
(5) The nominator must destroy a report given to the nominator under this section as soon as practicable after it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was requested.
(6) 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.