Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE SECURITY ACT - SECT 11

11. Licensing authority to keep register

(1) The licensing authority shall keep, in such manner and form as it thinks fit, registers of persons holding licences under this Act or disqualified from holding licences under this Act.

(2) The licensing authority shall make the register, other than a part of the register to which the public is not to have access in accordance with subsection (3), available for inspection by members of the public during normal business hours, on days other than public holidays or weekends.

(3) The licensing authority shall ensure that spent convictions within the meaning of the Criminal Records (Spent Convictions) Act are not recorded on a part of the register to which the public has access.

(4) Notwithstanding any provision of the Criminal Records (Spent Convictions) Act , the licensing authority -

(a) may keep such records of a person's criminal history as are required to be kept for the purposes of this Act, notwithstanding that part of the criminal history is a spent conviction within the meaning of the Criminal Records (Spent Convictions) Act ; and

(b) may, only insofar as required for the purposes of an appeal under this Act or as is otherwise required for the performance by an employee as defined in the Public Sector Employment and Management Act of his or her functions under that Act or this Act, make available to any person a record of a spent conviction within the meaning of the Criminal Records (Spent Convictions) Act .

(5) The licensing authority may authorise the release of information, including a spent conviction within the meaning of the Criminal Records (Spent Convictions) Act , to a person or body responsible for the issue of licences under an Act of the Territory, the Commonwealth or a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth.