Queensland Consolidated Acts

SECOND-HAND DEALERS AND PAWNBROKERS ACT 2003 - SECT 7

7 Suitability of applicants and licensees

(1) A person is not a suitable person to hold a licence if the person, or an associate of the person—

(a) is an individual under 18 years; or

(b) is an insolvent under administration; or

(c) has been convicted of a disqualifying offence within the last 5 years; or

(d) is a corporation that is a Chapter 5 body corporate under the Corporations Act ; or

(e) is subject to a relevant control order.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a person is not a suitable person to hold a licence if the chief executive decides the person is not suitable because the person, or an associate of the person—

(a) is subject to a control order or registered corresponding control order, other than a relevant control order; or

(b) has been convicted of an offence against—

(i) the Peace and Good Behaviour Act 1982 , section 32 , 54 or 75 ; or

(ii) the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 , section 161ZI .

(3) The chief executive, when deciding whether a person is a suitable person to hold a licence, may not have regard to criminal intelligence given by the commissioner of the police service to the chief executive under section 111 .

(4) A person who is not a suitable person may not hold a licence.

(5) In this section—

"insolvent under administration" has the meaning given by the Corporations Act , section 9 .