Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROPERTY OCCUPATIONS ACT 2014 - SECT 256

256 Effect of previous refusals of applications

(1) This section applies to a person who made an application for a licence or registration certificate under PAMDA that was refused before the commencement.

(2) The person can not make an application for a licence or registration under the Motor Dealers and Chattel Auctioneers Act, Debt Collectors Act or this Act—

(a) for 3 months after the day the chief executive gave the person an information notice for the refusal under PAMDA; or

(b) if the applicant applies to QCAT to review the chief executive’s decision and the decision is confirmed—for 3 months after the day the decision is confirmed.

(3) This section does not apply to a person if—

(a) the person is a corporation; and

(b) the person satisfies the chief executive that, because of a genuine sale—

(i) no person who was a shareholder of, or held a beneficial interest in, the corporation when the refused application was made is a shareholder of, or holds a beneficial interest in, the corporation; and

(ii) no person who was in a position to control or influence the affairs of the corporation when the refused application was made is in a position to control or influence the affairs of the corporation.