Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE AGENTS LICENSING ACT - SECT 17E

(1) An agent must not carry on business at a place unless there is present and in charge of the operations of the business at the place -

(a) if the agent is a corporation - a natural person approved by the Commissioner to be the manager of the place; or

(b) if the agent is a natural person - either the agent or another natural person approved by the Commissioner to be the manager of the place.

Penalty: 500 penalty units.

(2) The Regulations may -

(a) make provision with respect to applications to the Commissioner for approvals for the purposes of this section;

(b) specify the period within which the Commissioner must approve or refuse to approve a person as manager;

(c) specify the manner in which approval or refusal to approve a person as manager is to be made and notice of the approval or refusal is to be given and require the Commissioner to specify reasons if he or she refuses to approve a person as manager;

(d) specify the grounds on which the Commissioner must refuse to approve a person as a manager;

(e) enable the Commissioner to make enquiries and seek advice concerning the suitability of a natural person to be a manager and prescribe information that the Commissioner may consider in determining the person's suitability;

(f) prescribe conditions that the Commissioner may impose on approvals and enable the Commissioner to impose the prescribed conditions that he or she considers appropriate in the case of each approval;

(g) specify the period for which an approval has effect;

(h) empower the Commissioner to revoke an approval and prescribe the grounds on which an approval may be revoked;

(j) make provision for a right of appeal to the Court if the Commissioner refuses to approve a person as manager or revokes an approval; and

(k) prescribe the fees payable when applying for the approval of a person as manager and when the approval is granted and the time for and manner of the payment of the fees.