Queensland Consolidated Acts

DEBT COLLECTORS (FIELD AGENTS AND COLLECTION AGENTS) ACT 2014 - SECT 41

41 Application for licence

(1) An applicant for a licence must—

(a) apply to the chief executive in the approved form; and

(b) state the term of the licence being applied for; and

(c) establish the applicant’s eligibility for a licence; and

(d) state the names and addresses of the applicant’s business associates; and

(e) provide any information the chief executive reasonably requires to decide whether the applicant is a suitable person to hold a licence.

(2) The application must be accompanied by—

(a) the application fee prescribed under a regulation; and

(b) the licence issue fee prescribed under a regulation; and

(c) if, before or when the application is made, a criminal history costs requirement is made of the applicant—the amount of the costs required to be paid; and

(d) for an applicant who is an individual, 2 recent colour photographs of the applicant of a size prescribed under a regulation and certified as photographs of the applicant in the way prescribed under a regulation.

(3) The chief executive may, by written notice given to the applicant, require the applicant to give the chief executive within a stated reasonable period information or material the chief executive reasonably believes is needed to consider the application.

(4) An applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application if the applicant fails to comply with a requirement made under subsection (3) .