Queensland Numbered Acts

JUSTICE (FAIR TRADING) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 69 - SECT 70

After section 24--

insert--

'(1) The chief executive may require a service provider or an applicant to pay the reasonable, but no more than actual, costs of obtaining a report under section 24 about--

(a) the service provider or the applicant; or

(b) a person the chief executive reasonably considers is an associate of the service provider or the applicant.

'(2) 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.

'(3) In this section--

applicant includes proposed applicant.'.