Queensland Consolidated Acts

TOW TRUCK ACT 1973 - SECT 36

36 Chief executive may obtain information from police commissioner—criminal history

(1) The chief executive may ask the police commissioner for a written report about a person’s criminal history, including whether the person is, or has been, the subject of a control order or registered corresponding control order, to help in deciding whether—

(a) the person is an appropriate person to hold, or continue to hold, a licence or certificate under this Act; or

(b) a corporation of which the person is an executive officer is an appropriate person to hold, or continue to hold, a licence under this Act.

(2) For subsection (1) , the chief executive’s request may include the following information—

(a) the person’s name and any other name the chief executive believes the person may use or may have used;

(b) the person’s sex and date and place of birth;

(c) details of the person’s driver licence under the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 ;

(d) details of the person’s licence or certificate under this Act.

(3) If asked by the chief executive, the police commissioner must give the chief executive a written report about the person’s criminal history.

(4) Subsection (3) applies to the criminal history in the police commissioner’s possession or to which the police commissioner has access.

(5) A report under subsection (3) must, if the person is, or has been, the subject of a control order or registered corresponding control order—

(a) state the details of the order; or

(b) be accompanied by a copy of the order.