(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 happens—
(a) the commissioner receives all necessary information
to decide the application;
(b) the commissioner receives the
police information report about the applicant from the police commissioner.
(2) The commissioner may grant the application only if 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) whether the applicant has an interest in a
brothel;
(c) whether the applicant has been charged
with an offence of a sexual nature involving violence, intimidation, threats
or children, including the circumstances surrounding the laying of the charge
and whether proceedings in relation to the charge are continuing or have been
discontinued;
(d) if the applicant has been approved as a controller or
nominated and authorised under former section 109B as a controller—the
applicant’s previous conduct as a controller;