Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An application by a corporation for the grant of a licence—
(a) shall be in writing and signed on behalf of the corporation by an executive officer of the corporation; and
(b) shall be lodged with the registrar; and
(c) shall be accompanied by evidence of the due incorporation of the corporation; and
(d) shall be accompanied by a statement setting out, in relation to each executive officer of the corporation, the executive officers name, date of birth, present residential address and any other addresses where the executive officer has lived during the 3 years immediately before the date of the application; and
(e) except for an application for a car market operator licence—shall be accompanied by the relevant financial information referred to in subsection (2); and
(f) shall state the period, not longer than 12 months, for which the licence is sought and may specify the date from and including which the applicant proposes that the licence should take effect; and
(g) shall specify the premises where the corporation proposes to carry on business under the licence; and
(h) must be accompanied by an ACTPLA certificate for the premises where the corporation proposes to carry on business under the licence, dated not earlier than 3 months before the day the application is made; and
(i) must be accompanied by 2 certificates for each executive officer of the corporation indicating the executive officer's fame and character; and
(j) shall, where an executive officer either in the ACT or elsewhere has previously carried on the business of a dealer or has been employed by a dealer, contain details of the business so carried on or of that employment; and
(k) if the applicant proposes to carry on business under a name other than the name of the corporation—shall be accompanied by a certificate of registration of the business name under the Business Names Act 1963 ; and
(l) shall be accompanied by identification of each of the executive officers of the corporation being identification in accordance with the requirements of section 11A; and
(m) must be accompanied by a police certificate for each executive officer of the corporation, dated not earlier than 2 months before the day the application is made; and
(n) must include any other information prescribed by regulation.
(2) For subsection (1) (e), the relevant financial information is—
(a) if the corporation has been in existence for more than 1 financial year of that corporation—
(i) a copy of the corporation's accounts in relation to the financial year of the corporation immediately before the application for the grant of the licence; and
(ii) a copy of the corporation's accounts in relation to the period beginning at the end of that financial year and ending no more than 1 month immediately before the application for the grant of the licence; or
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply—a copy of the corporation's accounts for the period beginning on the day of its incorporation and ending no more than 1 month immediately before the day it applies for the grant of the licence.
(3) The accounts mentioned in subsection (2) must have been audited by a qualified accountant.
(4) An application under subsection (1) must be notified in accordance with section 11B (Notification of application).
(5) In this section:
"accounts"—see the Corporations Act, section 9 (Dictionary), definition of financial records .
"accounts in relation to a period" (the first period ) includes accounts for each of 2 periods whose total length corresponds to the length of the first period.