Queensland Consolidated Acts

SECOND-HAND DEALERS AND PAWNBROKERS ACT 2003 - SECT 11

11 Principal place of business

(1) If the applicant intends to carry on business at more than 1 place, the applicant must specify in the application the place the applicant intends to be the applicant’s principal place of business.

(2) If the applicant intends to carry on business at a location, the applicant must specify, as the applicant’s principal place of business—

(a) for an application for a second-hand dealer’s licence—an address where the applicant’s transactions register is to be maintained and may be inspected; or

(b) for an application for a pawnbroker’s licence—an address where the applicant’s property register is to be maintained and may be inspected, and property taken as a pawn is located.

(3) A place of business or an address under this section must be a place where a document may be served personally.

Example—

A post office box is not a place the applicant may use as a place of business or an address for this Act.