Queensland Consolidated Acts

FAMILY SERVICES ACT 1987

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Definitions

           Part 2--Objects and administration

           Division 1--Objects

   3.      Objects

           Division 2--Administration

   4.      Honorary officers
   5.      Engagement of agents
   6.      Delegation, and exercise of powers on behalf of chief executive
   7.      Advisory committees
   8.      Offences with respect to officers of the department etc.
   9.      Annual report

           Part 3--Family and community services

   10.     Chief executive may develop or carry out programs
   11.     Grants
   12.     Chief executive may inspect books etc.
   13.     Auditor-general may audit books etc.

           Part 4--Criminal histories of persons engaged by the department

           Division 1--Preliminary

   14.     Persons engaged by the department
   15.     Purpose
   16.     This part applies despite the Criminal Law (Rehabilitation of Offenders) Act 1986
   17.     Chief executive to advise of duties of disclosure etc.

           Division 2--Disclosure of criminal history

   18.     Persons seeking to be engaged by the department must disclose criminal history
   19.     Persons engaged by the department must disclose changes in criminal history
   20.     Requirements for disclosure
   21.     False, misleading or incomplete disclosure or failure to disclose

           Division 3--Chief executive may obtain information from other entities about criminal history and certain investigations

   22.     Chief executive may obtain report from commissioner of police service
   23.     Prosecuting authority to notify chief executive about committal, conviction etc.

           Division 4--Controls on use of information about criminal history and certain investigations

   24.     Use of information obtained under this part
   25.     Person to be advised of information obtained
   26.     Confidentiality
   27.     Guidelines for dealing with information

           Part 5--Miscellaneous

   28.     Evidentiary provisions
   29.     Liability for offences by bodies corporate and unincorporate
   30.     Approved forms
   30A.    Delegation

           Part 6--Transitional provisions

   33.     Family and Youth Services Act 1987 references
   34.     Reference in schedule to Criminal Code offences
           SCHEDULE -- OTHER SERIOUS OFFENCE PROVISIONS OF THE CRIMINAL CODE
           Endnotes