WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 192
Refusing application to transfer licence
WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 192
Refusing application to transfer licence
192 Refusing application to transfer licence
(1) The chief executive may refuse the application if the chief executive is
satisfied the transferee does not have the necessary expertise or experience
to be a licence holder or is not a suitable person to hold the licence,
including, for example—
(a) because the transferee has been convicted of an
offence against this Act or an interstate law or has held 1 of the following
licences (each a
"relevant licence" ) that has been cancelled or suspended under this Act or an
interstate law—
(i) a resource operations licence;
(ii) an interstate
resource operations licence;
(iii) a distribution operations licence;
(iv)
an interstate distribution operations licence; or
(b) if the transferee is a
corporation—because an executive officer of the corporation—
(i) has been
convicted of an offence against this Act or an interstate law, or has held a
relevant licence that has been cancelled or suspended under this Act or an
interstate law; or
(ii) is or has been an executive officer of another
corporation that has been convicted of an offence against this Act or an
interstate law, or has held a relevant licence that has been cancelled or
suspended under this Act or an interstate law.
(2) The chief executive may
also refuse the application on grounds not mentioned in subsection (1) .
(3)
If the chief executive decides to refuse the application, the chief executive
must give the applicant an information notice about the decision within 30
business days after making the decision.