Queensland Consolidated Acts

SECOND-HAND DEALERS AND PAWNBROKERS ACT 2003 - SECT 25

25 Change of authorised place

(1) A licensee may apply to the chief executive to approve a place as an authorised place for the licensee’s licence.

(2) The application must be in the approved form and be accompanied by the fee prescribed under a regulation.

(3) The licensee must indicate in the application—

(a) whether the place is to be the licensee’s principal place of business; and

(b) whether the licensee intends to continue to carry on business at each other approved place for the licence.

(4) The chief executive must consider each application and—

(a) approve the place as an authorised place for the licence, with or without conditions; or

(b) refuse to approve the place as an authorised place for the licence.

(5) If the chief executive decides to refuse to approve the place as an authorised place for the licence, the chief executive must give the applicant a QCAT information notice for the decision.

(6) If the chief executive approves the application, the licensee must, within 7 days of the licensee receiving notice of the approval, give the chief executive the licensee’s licence.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(7) If the chief executive is given a licence under subsection (6) , the chief executive must give the licensee another copy of the licence stating the authorised place approved by the chief executive for the licence.