(1) The commissioner must consider the application and either grant, or refuse
to grant, the application as soon as practicable after the last of the
following events happens—
(a) the commissioner receives the application;
(b) the commissioner receives all necessary information to decide the
application.
(2) The commissioner may grant the application only if the
commissioner is satisfied the applicant is a suitable person to hold the
approval.
(3) In deciding whether the applicant is a suitable person to hold
the approval, the commissioner may have regard to the following—
(a) the
applicant’s knowledge of this Act;
(b) the applicant’s understanding of
an approved manager’s obligations and responsibilities under this Act;
(c)
whether the applicant is a person of good repute who does not have a history
of behaviour that would render the applicant unsuitable to hold the approval;
(d) whether the applicant has been convicted of a prescribed offence;
(e) if
the applicant is, or has been, the subject of a control order or registered
corresponding control order—the terms of the order.
(3A) However, the
commissioner may not have regard to criminal intelligence in deciding whether
a person is a suitable person to hold the approval.
(4) The commissioner may
obtain a report from the police commissioner in relation to the applicant’s
criminal history, including whether the person is, or has been, the subject of
a control order or registered corresponding control order.