Kocic v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force (GD) [2013] NSWADTAP 53

Administrative Decisions Tribunal New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Kocic v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force (GD) [2013] NSWADTAP 53 Hearing dates: 14 October 2013 Decision date: 28 November 2013 Jurisdiction: Appeal Panel - Internal Before: Judge K P O'Connor, President Decision: Interlocutory appeal dismissed. Application remitted to Tribunal. Catchwords: OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING - Firearms - Whether administrator may have regard to spent conviction history - statutory interpretation - relationship of spent convictions law with firearms law - administrator must disregard history in relation to fitness - may have regard to history in exercising public interest discretion - appeal dismissed - matter remitted: Firearms Act 1996, s 11(3), s 11(7), s 16; Criminal Records Act 1991, s 12, s 13. Legislation Cited: Administrative Decisions Tribunal Act 1997 Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) Criminal Records Act 1991 Firearms Act 1996 Security Industry Act 1997 Spent Convictions Act 1988 (WA) Cases Cited: Commissioner for Police v Toleafoa [1999] NSWADTAP 9 DP v Commissioner of Police, New South Wales Police [2007] NSWADT 277 Goodwin v Phillips (1908) 7 CLR 1 Mahabir v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police [2006] NSWADT 358 Oliver v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police [2007] NSWADT 153 O'Sullivan v Farrer (1989) 168 CLR 210 Pearce v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Service [2000] NSWADT 99 Saraswati v The Queen (1991) 172 CLR 1 Stranges v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Service [2004] NSWADT 221 Category: Interlocutory applications Parties: Nedzad Kocic (Appellant) Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force (Respondent) Representation: Counsel I Lloyd QC with D Accoto (Appellant) R Graycar (Respondent) A Bye, Kells The Lawyers (Appellant) J Mattson, Bartier Perry (Respondent) File Number(s): 139026 Decision under appeal Citation: Kocic v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force [2013] NSWADT 146 Date of Decision: 2013-06-25 00:00:00 Before: General Division File Number(s): 123327