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INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 104C
Vetting of prospective staff or consultants
104C Vetting of prospective staff or consultants
(1) Vetting information that is held by the Inspector or Commission or
obtained under this section may be used in determining whether to appoint a
person (an
"applicant" ) as an officer of the Inspector or the Commission.
(2) For the
purposes of this section,
"vetting information" is information of the following kind about an applicant,
or about an associate or relative of an applicant-- (a) any criminal
intelligence report or other criminal information,
(b) information held in
the Births, Deaths and Marriages Register,
(c) information held by Transport
for NSW relating to licences or other authorities, offences or penalties,
(d)
information held by Corrective Services NSW, Department of Attorney General
and Justice,
(e) information held by the Australian Crime Commission,
(f)
information held by a law enforcement agency,
(g) information held by an
agency of the Commonwealth or of the State or another State or Territory
investigating public sector corruption,
(h) information held by an agency of
a jurisdiction outside Australia, being an agency responsible for the
enforcement of laws of that jurisdiction,
(i) information prescribed by the
regulations that is held by a public authority or held by a Government agency
of another jurisdiction (whether in or outside Australia).
(3) The Inspector
or Commission may, with the consent of an applicant, request a
public authority or other person or body to disclose vetting information about
the applicant.
(4) The Inspector or Commission may also, without consent,
request a public authority or other person or body (not being an agency of a
jurisdiction outside Australia) to disclose vetting information about
associates or relatives of the applicant.
(5) The Inspector or Commission
must notify an applicant that the Inspector or Commission has the power under
this section to request a public authority or other person or body (not being
an agency of a jurisdiction outside Australia) to disclose vetting information
about associates or relatives of the applicant. The notice must be given when
the consent of the applicant is sought under subsection (3) or, if consent has
not been sought for the purposes of that subsection, before the first request
for information about associates or relatives of the applicant is made under
this section.
(6) A public authority that holds, or is responsible for the
disclosure of, vetting information is authorised to disclose the information
to the Inspector or Commission for the purposes of this section.
(7) The
Commissioner of Police is authorised at any time to disclose (or arrange for a
member of the NSW Police Force to disclose) to the Inspector or Commission
information about the criminal history of a person for the purposes of this
section, including the following-- (a) information relating to spent
convictions, despite anything to the contrary in the Criminal Records Act
1991 ,
(b) information relating to criminal charges, whether or not heard,
proven, dismissed, withdrawn or discharged,
(c) information relating to
offences, despite anything to the contrary in section 579 of the Crimes Act
1900 .
(8) For the purposes of the collection, disclosure or use of
vetting information under this section or section 104D, the information may be
collected, disclosed or used despite any other Act or law. Note : Section 111
makes it an offence for an officer or former officer of the Inspector or
Commission to disclose information obtained in the exercise of functions under
this Act.
(9) This section does not restrict or prevent-- (a) the Inspector
or Commission or any other person from collecting, disclosing or using any
information that the Inspector, Commission or other person may otherwise
lawfully collect, disclose or use, or
(b) the Inspector or Commission from
considering information other than vetting information in determining whether
or not to appoint an applicant as an officer of the Inspector or Commission.
(10) In this section and section 104D--
"appoint" includes engage, make use of the services of and second.
"law enforcement agency" means the following-- (a) the NSW Police Force,
(b)
a Police Force of another State or Territory,
(c) the Australian Federal
Police,
(d) any other authority or person responsible for the enforcement of
the laws of the Commonwealth or of the State or another State or Territory.
"officer of the Inspector" includes a person engaged by the Inspector under
section 57E (3).
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