Queensland Numbered Acts

JUSTICE (FAIR TRADING) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 69 - SECT 44

After section 32--

insert--

'(1) The chief executive may require an applicant or licensee to pay the reasonable, but no more than actual, costs of obtaining a report under section 32 about--

(a) the applicant or licensee; or

(b) if the applicant or licensee intends carrying on, or carries on, business in partnership or in conjunction with others--each member of the partnership or each person with whom the applicant or licensee intends carrying on, or carries on, business in partnership or in conjunction; or

(c) if the applicant or licensee is a corporation--the corporation's executive officers; or

(d) a business associate of the applicant or licensee; or

(e) if the applicant has made an application under section 64(3), 65(4) or 66(4)--the person nominated by the applicant under section 64(3), 65(4) or 66(4).

'(2) The requirement is a criminal history costs requirement.

'(3) The requirement is sufficiently made of the applicant or licensee if it is made generally of applicants of that type in the relevant approved form or notified on the department's web site for applicants or licensees of that type.

'(4) The chief executive must refund to an applicant an amount paid under the requirement if--

(a) the chief executive refuses the application without asking for the report; or

(b) the applicant withdraws the application before the chief executive asks for the report.

'(5) In this section--

applicant includes proposed applicant.'.