Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Subject to this section, on receipt of an application under section 3.5.33E, the Commission may grant or refuse to grant an approval.
(2) The Commission must not grant an approval unless—
S. 3.5.33F
(2)(a) amended by No. 62/2017 s. 101(5).
(a) the approved venue in which the venue operator proposes to place or allow to be placed an automatic teller machine is or will be situated outside metropolitan Melbourne; and
(b) the Commission is satisfied that the community in which the approved venue is or will be situated would, if the approval is not granted—
(i) have no reasonable alternative access to cash facilities; and
(ii) suffer hardship.
(3) For the purpose of being satisfied under subsection (2)(b), the Commission—
(a) must apply any criteria specified in a Ministerial direction; and
(b) must take into account any other matters specified in a Ministerial direction; and
(c) may take into account any other matter it considers relevant.
(4) The Commission must—
(a) notify, in writing, the venue operator of its decision under this section; and
(b) publish notice of the granting of an approval in the Government Gazette under this section.
(5) An approval comes into effect on the day notice of its granting is published in the Government Gazette or on a later date specified in the notice.
(6) An approval remains in force until revoked by the Commission under this Subdivision.
S. 3.5.33F(7) inserted by No. 62/2017 s. 49(28).
(7) This section applies in relation to a venue whose approval under Part 3 is suspended in the same way that it applies in relation to an approved venue.
S. 3.5.33G inserted by No. 29/2009 s. 79 (as amended by Nos 60/2011 ss 72, 73, 32/2012 ss 25–29).