NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 18NC Circumstances in which servicing licence must be refused

NATIONAL MEASUREMENT ACT 1960 - SECT 18NC

  (1)   The Secretary must refuse an application by an applicant to be granted a servicing licence if:

  (a)   the applicant is an individual who has not reached the age of 18 years; or

  (b)   the applicant holds a licence under this Act that is suspended; or

  (c)   the applicant is disqualified under this Act from holding a licence; or

  (d)   neither the applicant nor any employee of the applicant has the competencies appropriate to perform the functions and duties of a verifier; or

  (e)   the applicant is not likely to carry on the activities of a servicing licensee honestly and fairly; or

  (f)   the applicant is in any other way not a fit and proper person to be a servicing licensee.

  (2)   Without limiting the generality of paragraph   (1)(f), the Secretary may have regard to any or all of the following matters in determining whether the applicant is a fit and proper person to be a servicing licensee:

  (a)   whether the applicant has, during the period of 10 years that immediately preceded the making of the application, been convicted of, or served any part of a term of imprisonment for, an offence (whether under the law of the Commonwealth or any other law) involving fraud or dishonesty;

  (b)   whether the applicant was, when the application was made, the subject of a charge pending in relation to such an offence;

  (c)   whether the applicant has, at any time, been convicted of an offence against this Act or an earlier corresponding law;

  (d)   whether the applicant has been refused a licence under this Act or an earlier corresponding law.