sec.318RInvestigation of applicant suitability or disqualifying events

### sec.318R Investigation of applicant suitability or disqualifying events The chief executive may investigate a person or another entity to help decide whether— an applicant is suitable to be a registered suitable operator; or a disqualifying event has happened in relation to the person or entity. The chief executive may obtain a report on the person or entity from an administering authority of another State under a corresponding law about a matter mentioned in subsection (1) . The commissioner of the police service must, if asked by the chief executive, give the chief executive a written report about any convictions, other than spent convictions, for environmental offences recorded against the person or entity obtained from— information in the commissioner’s possession; and information the commissioner can reasonably obtain by asking officials administering police services in other Australian jurisdictions. In this section— spent conviction means a conviction— for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired under that Act; and that is not revived as prescribed by section 11 of that Act. s 318R ins 2012 No. 16 s 8 (amd 2013 No. 6 s 10 (12) ) amd 2020 No. 26 s 71 (sec.318R-ssec.1) The chief executive may investigate a person or another entity to help decide whether— an applicant is suitable to be a registered suitable operator; or a disqualifying event has happened in relation to the person or entity. (sec.318R-ssec.2) The chief executive may obtain a report on the person or entity from an administering authority of another State under a corresponding law about a matter mentioned in subsection (1) . (sec.318R-ssec.3) The commissioner of the police service must, if asked by the chief executive, give the chief executive a written report about any convictions, other than spent convictions, for environmental offences recorded against the person or entity obtained from— information in the commissioner’s possession; and information the commissioner can reasonably obtain by asking officials administering police services in other Australian jurisdictions. (sec.318R-ssec.4) In this section— spent conviction means a conviction— for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired under that Act; and that is not revived as prescribed by section 11 of that Act. - (a) an applicant is suitable to be a registered suitable operator; or - (b) a disqualifying event has happened in relation to the person or entity. - (a) information in the commissioner’s possession; and - (b) information the commissioner can reasonably obtain by asking officials administering police services in other Australian jurisdictions. - (a) for which the rehabilitation period under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986 has expired under that Act; and - (b) that is not revived as prescribed by section 11 of that Act.