Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1990 No. 156 CRIMES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 5

5. The Principal Regulations are amended by adding at the end the following
Schedule:
                                 SCHEDULE 2                        Regulation
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Item no.   Prescribed persons

           and bodies            Prescribed purposes   Prescribed offences

 1         Commonwealth

           authorities           (1) Assessing the

suitability of a
person to be employed,
or otherwise engaged,
in work that is likely
to involve access to
national security
information classified
as secret or top
                                 secret                All offences


(2) Assessing the
suitability of a
person to have right
of access to areas at
airports designated
under regulations made
under the Civil 
Aviation Act 1988 as
security restricted
                                 areas                 Offences of violence
and
of threatened or actual
damage to property

(3) Providing
assistance to a person
referred to in
paragraph 85ZZH (d) of
the Act in relation to
the making of a
decision referred to
                                 in that paragraph     All offences

 2         The Defence Force     Assessing the

suitability of a
person for appointment
to a position
involving the care,
instruction or
supervision of minors Designated offences
 3         A convening authority

referred to in section
102 of the Defence 
Force Discipline Act
1982 or a prosecutor
referred to in rule 42
of the Defence Force
           Discipline Rules      Considering whether to

prosecute and making
submissions and
decisions as to
                                 sentence              All offences

 4         Australian Customs

           Service               Assessing the

suitability of a
person to have
responsibility for
matters relating to
                                 law enforcement       All offences

 5         Governments of

Queensland, South
Australia, Tasmania
and the Northern
           Territory             Assessing the

suitability of a
person for appointment
as a justice of the
                                 peace                 All offences

 6         Prison administrations

in Victoria, Western
Australia and the
           Northern Territory    Assessing the

suitability of a
person to have
responsibility for the
care or control of
                                 prisoners             Offences involving

violence
 7         A person who, or body

which, employs or
otherwise engages
persons to provide
care for the disabled
in residential
settings in Victoria Assessing the
suitability of a
person to have
responsibility for the
care of the disabled
in a residential
                                 setting               Offences involving

violence
 8         Commonwealth

Government and
Governments of
Queensland, South
Australia, Tasmania,
the Australian Capital
Territory and the
           Northern Territory    Assessing the

suitability of a
person to be licensed
as director, or
appointed as the chief
executive, of a casino
All offences
 9         Government of Tasmania

Assessing the
suitability of a
person for appointment
to the Poppy Advisory
                                 Board                 Drug offences

10         Poppy Advisory Board,

           Tasmania              Assessing the

suitability of a
person to be the
holder of a licence to
                                 grow opium poppies    Drug offences

11         Persons or bodies

lawfully engaged in
the growing of opium
poppies or the
production of opiate
           alkaloids             Assessing the

suitability of a
person to be employed,
or otherwise engaged,
in connection with the
growing of opium
poppies or the
production of opiate
                                 alkaloids             Drug offences

12         Public libraries,

university libraries,
public archives
offices and the
Australian War
           Memorial              Making available

material for research,
                                 reference or study    All offences