Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to each of the following persons--
(a) a person who has applied, under section 13AA, to become an adoptive parent and to have the person's name entered in an adoption list but who has not been assessed as a prospective adopter;
(b) a person who expressed an interest in being assessed as suitable to be a prospective adopter;
(c) a person who is a prospective adopter and whose name is in an adoption list or the assessment register.
(1A) A person to whom this section applies must, if asked by the chief executive, disclose to the chief executive the person's criminal history to the extent the chief executive considers is necessary to enable a proper assessment to be made of the person as a prospective adopter or under section 14.
(2) For the purpose of making an assessment in respect of any person the chief executive may have regard to the criminal history (if any) of the person.
(3) If the chief executive is of opinion that the criminal history of a person in respect of whom an assessment is being made shows--
(a) in the case of a person whose name is in the expression of interest register--that the person is not a fit and proper person to become an adoptive parent; or
(b) in the case of a person whose name is in an adoption list--that the welfare and interests of the child will not be promoted by making an adoption order in favour of that person;
the chief executive may make the assessment on the basis of the criminal history alone.
(4) The chief executive shall not be precluded from making an assessment in respect of any person on the basis of the person's criminal history alone or on bases that include that of the person's criminal history by reason that--
(a) there has previously been made an assessment in respect of that person on the basis of the person's criminal history alone; or
(b) an assessment of the person made on the basis of the person's criminal history alone has been set aside by the tribunal on a review of the assessment.
(5) The chief executive must destroy a person's criminal history if the chief executive considers it is no longer necessary for this Act.