Environmental Protection Act 1994

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—

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.