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Residential Services (Accreditation) Act 2002
sec.24Obtaining criminal history report
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### sec.24 Obtaining criminal history report
This section applies to a person only if—
the person is registered as the service provider for a residential service; or
the person is an applicant; or
the chief executive reasonably considers the person is an associate of a service provider and the person has given the chief executive a signed consent to a criminal history check.
On receiving a written request from the chief executive, the commissioner of the police service must give the chief executive a report about the criminal history of the person.
The report must be prepared from information in the commissioner’s possession or to which the commissioner has access.
If the criminal history of the person includes a conviction recorded against the person, the report must be written.
s 24 amd 2008 No. 69 s 69
(sec.24-ssec.1) This section applies to a person only if— the person is registered as the service provider for a residential service; or the person is an applicant; or the chief executive reasonably considers the person is an associate of a service provider and the person has given the chief executive a signed consent to a criminal history check.
(sec.24-ssec.2) On receiving a written request from the chief executive, the commissioner of the police service must give the chief executive a report about the criminal history of the person.
(sec.24-ssec.3) The report must be prepared from information in the commissioner’s possession or to which the commissioner has access.
(sec.24-ssec.4) If the criminal history of the person includes a conviction recorded against the person, the report must be written.
- (a) the person is registered as the service provider for a residential service; or
- (b) the person is an applicant; or
- (c) the chief executive reasonably considers the person is an associate of a service provider and the person has given the chief executive a signed consent to a criminal history check.