Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (INFECTION CONTROL FOR PERSONAL APPEARANCE SERVICES) ACT 2003 - SECT 46A

46A Applications for restoration of licence

(1) If a person’s licence expires, the person may apply to the local government that issued the licence for the restoration of the licence.

(2) The application must be made within 30 days after the licence expires.

(3) The application must comply with section 58 .

(4) The local government must consider the application and decide to—

(a) restore the licence; or

(b) restore the licence subject to conditions; or

(c) refuse to restore the licence.

(5) In deciding whether to grant the application, the local government may have regard to—

(a) whether, under section 35 , the applicant is a suitable person to hold the licence; and

(b) whether, under section 36 , the premises at which higher risk personal appearance services are to be provided under the licence, if the application is granted, are suitable for providing the services; and

(c) the results of inspections to monitor compliance with this Act during the term of the licence that ended on the expiry of the licence.

(6) If the local government decides to restore the licence, with or without conditions—

(a) the local government must give the applicant notice of the decision; and

(b) the licence continues in force for the period of up to 3 years stated in the licence, or in the notice mentioned in paragraph (a) , starting on the day the licence would have expired but for section 46C .

(7) The local government must immediately give the applicant an information notice for the following decisions—

(a) a decision to restore the licence subject to conditions;

(b) a decision to refuse to restore the licence.

(8) An expired licence may be restored, with or without conditions, by—

(a) endorsing the expired licence with details of the restoration; or

(b) issuing another licence.