Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 2008 - SECT 260

260 Particular police information obtained before commencement

(1) This section applies if—

(a) before the commencement, the police commissioner gave the chief executive of a department a written report about a person’s police information under section 160 of the unamended Act; and

(b) at the commencement, the chief executive has not, in relation to the written report, made an assessment about the person’s suitability for engagement, or continued engagement, to perform child-related duties under section 162 of the unamended Act.

(2) The chief executive must immediately—

(a) destroy the written report; and

(b) stop making the assessment.

Note—

The person’s suitability for engagement, or continued engagement, to perform child-related duties is now dealt with under chapter 5, part 6, divisions 3 or 3A as in force from the commencement. See section 258.

(3) In this section—

"child-related duties" means child-related duties within the meaning of section 156 of the unamended Act.