Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to the commissioner in considering relevant information about a person under this part.
(2) When making the assessment, the commissioner may have regard to all relevant information available to the commissioner, including, but not limited to--
(a) information that is disclosed to the commissioner under this part; and
(b) information that is made available by a declared agency or a law enforcement agency of another country because of a request made under this part; and
(c) information that is stored on--
(i) a database kept by the commissioner; or
(ii) a database kept by another law enforcement agency to which the commissioner has access; and
(d) information that is otherwise available to the commissioner.
Examples for subsection (2)--
1 information obtained from previous employment checks
2 fingerprint checks
3 DNA tests
(3) In addition, information obtained under this part may be taken into account in deciding a question of merit under a merit provision.
(4) Subsection (3) is in addition to and does not limit a merit provision.
(5) In this section--
merit provision means--
(a) section 5.2; or
(b) the Public Service Act 1996, section 78.
Editor's note--
Public Service Act 1996--now see the Public Service Act 2008, section 249.