Integrity Act 2009

The application must be made in the approved form.

The approved form may provide for—

if the entity for whom registration as a lobbyist is sought is an individual—

a statement that the individual is not disqualified from being a registered lobbyist under section 49; and

a written report about the criminal history of the individual; and

if the entity for whom registration as a lobbyist is sought is a former representative—a statement about the official dealings engaged in by the former representative in the 2 years immediately before becoming a former representative; and

if the applicant has officers or employees—a statement listing the name of each officer or employee of the applicant other than—

an officer or employee who is already a registered lobbyist, or for whom registration as a lobbyist is sought by the application; or

an employee whose role within the entity involves only administrative duties; or

an employee whose role within the entity involves work only outside Queensland.

Information in the application must, if the approved form requires, be verified by a statutory declaration by each entity for whom registration as a lobbyist is sought by the application.

In this section—criminal history, of an individual, means the individual’s criminal history as defined under the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986, other than spent convictions, in relation to the following offences—

an offence for which the individual has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment of at least 30 months;

an offence involving fraud or dishonesty for which the individual has been convicted as an adult.

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.