TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 111B
When person is suitable to be transit officer
TRANSPORT OPERATIONS (PASSENGER TRANSPORT) ACT 1994 - SECT 111B
When person is suitable to be transit officer
111B When person is suitable to be transit officer
(1) This section provides for when a person may be considered to be suitable
to be a transit officer.
(2) A person is suitable to be a transit officer
only if—
(a) the person has not been convicted of—
(i) a category A driver
disqualification offence; or
(ii) a category B driver disqualification
offence other than an offence against the Criminal Code , section 328A ; or
(iii) an indictable offence in Queensland not covered by subparagraph (i) or
(ii) ; or
(iv) an offence outside Queensland that, if it had been committed
in Queensland, would constitute an indictable offence not covered by
subparagraph (i) or (ii) ; and
(b) the person is of good character; and
(c)
the person’s state of physical and mental fitness will enable the person to
perform the functions and exercise the powers of a transit officer.
(3) In
deciding whether a person is of good character, the chief executive may
consider the following matters as indicating that the person may not be of
good character—
(a) in dealings in which the person has been involved, the
person has—
(i) shown dishonesty or lack of integrity; or
(ii) used
harassing tactics;
(b) the person associates with, or has associated with, a
criminal in a way that indicates involvement in unlawful activity.
(4)
Subsection (3) does not limit the matters the chief executive may consider in
deciding whether or not a person is of good character.
(5) In this section—
"conviction" , for an offence mentioned in subsection (2) (a) (iii) or (iv) ,
does not include a spent conviction.