Commonwealth Numbered Acts

DAIRY PRODUCE ACT 1986 No. 54 of 1986 - SECT 56

56. (1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, the Corporation
shall, upon receiving an application, made as prescribed, for an export
licence, grant an export licence to the applicant.

(2) Where the applicant is a body corporate, the Corporation shall not grant
an export licence to the applicant if, within 10 years before the application
was made-

   (a)  the applicant; or

   (b)  a person who is in a position to control the operations of the
        applicant, has been convicted of a prescribed offence.

(3) Where the applicant is a natural person, the Corporation shall not grant
an export licence to the applicant if, within 10 years before the application
was made-

   (a)  the applicant; or

   (b)  a body corporate the operations of which, at the relevant time, the
        applicant was in a position to control, has been convicted of a
        prescribed offence.

(4) The Corporation may refuse to grant an export licence to an applicant if a
licence granted to the applicant, or a licence granted to the applicant under
the Dairy Produce Act 1924, has been cancelled.

(5) Where the Corporation refuses to grant an export licence to an applicant,
it shall give notice in writing to the applicant of the refusal.

(6) Where an application for an export licence has not been determined within
2 months after it was made, the Corporation shall, for the purposes of
enabling an application to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to be made, be
deemed to have refused the application on the last day of that period.