Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION ACT 1999 - SECT 142E

142E Obtaining interstate criminal history information about particular persons

(1) The chief executive may ask an interstate commissioner for a written statement briefly describing the circumstances of—

(a) each interstate conviction of a relevant person; or

(b) each interstate charge made against a relevant person.

(2) The chief executive and the interstate commissioner may enter into a written arrangement by which information mentioned in subsection (1) is transferred.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2) , the arrangement—

(a) may provide for the electronic transfer of information, including, for example, on a daily basis; and

(b) if the arrangement provides for the electronic transfer of information—must provide for the following—

(i) limitations under this Act on who may access the information;

(ii) limitations under this Act on the purposes for which the information may be used.

Note—

See also section 142F (2) .

(4) In this section—

"interstate charge" , made against a person, means a charge against the person for an offence alleged to have been committed by the person against a law of another State or the Commonwealth.

"interstate commissioner" means the commissioner of a police force or service of another State or the Commonwealth.

"interstate conviction" , of a person, means a conviction for an offence committed by the person against a law of another State or the Commonwealth, including an interstate spent conviction of the person.

"interstate rehabilitation law" means a law applying, or that applied, in another State or the Commonwealth, that provides or provided for the same matter as the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 .

"interstate spent conviction" , of a person, means an interstate conviction of the person that the person is not required to disclose under an interstate rehabilitation law because—

(a) a rehabilitation period prescribed for the conviction under the interstate rehabilitation law has expired; and

(b) the conviction has not been revived under the interstate rehabilitation law.

"relevant person" means any of the following persons—

(a) an applicant for a certificate of approval who has, or to whom the chief executive proposes to issue, a provisional certificate;

(b) an adult member of the household of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) .