Queensland Consolidated Acts

DEBT COLLECTORS (FIELD AGENTS AND COLLECTION AGENTS) ACT 2014 - SECT 78

78 Application for registration

(1) An applicant for registration as a subagent must—

(a) apply to the chief executive in the approved form; and

(b) state the term of the registration being applied for; and

(c) establish the applicant’s suitability and eligibility for registration as a subagent; and

(d) provide any information the chief executive reasonably requires to decide whether the applicant is a suitable person, and eligible, for registration as a subagent.

(2) The application must be accompanied by—

(a) the application fee prescribed under a regulation; and

(b) the registration fee prescribed under a regulation; and

(c) if, before or when the application is made, a criminal history costs requirement is made of the applicant—the amount of the costs required to be paid; and

(d) 2 recent colour photographs of the applicant of a size prescribed under a regulation and certified as photographs of the applicant in the way prescribed under a regulation.

(3) The chief executive may, by written notice given to the applicant, require the applicant to give the chief executive within a stated reasonable period information or material the chief executive reasonably believes is needed to consider the application.

(4) An applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application if the applicant fails to comply with a requirement made under subsection (3) .