Queensland Consolidated Acts

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND COMMISSIONERS FOR DECLARATIONS ACT 1991 - SECT 33

33 Inquiries about person’s appropriateness to hold office

(1) The chief executive may make inquiries about a person to assist in deciding whether the person is an appropriate person to hold office under this Act.

(2) If requested by the chief executive, the commissioner of the police service must give the chief executive a written report about the person’s criminal history.

(3) Subsection (2) applies to the criminal history—

(a) that is in the commissioner’s possession; or

(b) to which the commissioner ordinarily has access through arrangements with the police service of the Commonwealth, another State or Territory.

(4) The commissioner may also notify the chief executive if an appointee is charged with, or convicted of, an offence.

(5) A notification under subsection (4) may be made under arrangements between the commissioner and the chief executive, including an arrangement for the electronic transfer of information.

(6) In this section—

"appointee" means a person holding office as an appointed justice of the peace or appointed commissioner for declarations.