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For the same service, a person found competent through qualifications and experience but not entitled through an approved training course must receive both a permission and a non-permission endorsement.
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(b) is, by reason of his or her qualifications and experience,
competent to provide a service specified in subsection (1),
the Board must authorise the endorsement of the licence under
subsection (1) with a statement to the effect that the holder of the
licence is permitted to provide the service.
(a) is not entitled under subsection (3) to have his or her licence
endorsed in relation to a service specified in subsection (1); or
the Registrar must endorse the licence with a statement to the
effect that the holder of the licence is not permitted to provide the
service.
The warning for commercial or liquor licence premises refers to a record that can be made only for residential premises.
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(b) at those commercial or liquor licence premises:
for a second or subsequent time within 12 months after a record is
made under section 11E(1) in relation to the premises, a drug
premises order may be made under this Division in relation to the
premises.
A police officer may make a record in the prescribed form of a
dangerous drug being found by the officer at residential premises.
The mandatory sorting categories do not accommodate an envelope containing an early vote cast under section 57 by an enrolled person omitted from the certified list whose division is in the early voting centre’s region.
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(a) the omission of all or part of the elector's name from a certified
list of voters;
(c) the officer must, in the presence of the person, without
unfolding the ballot paper, place it in the envelope on which
the declaration mentioned in section 57(1)(e) appears, seal
the envelope and place it in a ballot box at the polling place;
(i) declaration ballot papers completed by electors for each
division in the region in which the early voting centre is
situated; and
(ii) envelopes containing declaration ballot papers by
electors for each division in other regions; and
(iii) envelopes containing declaration ballot papers
completed
For a prime mover less than 1.8 metres wide, rule 91(1) says front clearance lights may only be fitted to a vehicle at least 1.8 metres wide, while rule 91(2) requires a pair on a prime mover.
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Front clearance lights may only be fitted to a vehicle that is at least
1.8 metres wide.
A pair of front clearance lights must be fitted to a motor vehicle that
is at least 2.2 metres wide, or a prime mover.
A permitted retrospective notification can bring a completed day's activity within a reporting requirement whose deadline has passed.
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the person notifies the Minister as soon as reasonably
practicable after carrying out the activity;
An interest holder who carries out an activity that has been notified
under regulation 66AAJ(1) must submit a report to the Minister for
each day on which the activity is carried out.
The report must be provided to the Minister by 12 noon on the day
immediately following the day to which the report relates.
Section 35(3)(c) directs an application to the Commissioner under section 36, but section 36 provides for an application to the Tribunal.
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make an application to the Commissioner under section 36.
The operator or the resident may, within 5 business days after the operator receives the condition report as changed by the resident, apply to the Tribunal for a condition report about the agreement property.
the Tribunal may request the Commissioner to prepare a condition report about the agreement property.
Registration is required for a non-assistance dog kept in the municipality, but must be refused if the dog is usually kept on premises within a dog restricted area.
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The owner of a dog that is kept in the municipality must register the
dog with the council, unless the dog is an assistance dog.
The council must refuse to register or renew the registration of a
dog if:
the dog is usually kept on premises within a dog restriction
area.
Where no joint-return approval is in force, clause 9(2)(a) calculates the designated group employer’s monthly tax after a deductible amount, and clause 9(3) says it need not pay if that amount equals or exceeds its taxable wages. Clause 9(2)(b) also applies to “each employer who is a member of the group”, without excluding the designated group employer, and calculates tax on its taxable wages without a deduction. If that employer has positive taxable wages no greater than the deductible amount, the provisions require both no payment and payment of tax on those wages.
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the amount of payroll tax payable by the designated group
employer on taxable wages paid or payable by the designated
group employer in a month is the amount of dollars calculated in
accordance with the following formula:
the amount of payroll tax payable by each employer who is a
member of the group on taxable wages paid or payable by the
employer in a month is the amount of dollars calculated in
accordance with the following formula:
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The stated trigger—having no responsible persons because section 9(3)(c) applies to each responsible person—does not follow from the supplied definition or rule.
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(c) a body corporate if a responsible person for the body corporate:
(i) has been convicted of a disqualifying offence; or
if a person ceases to be a responsible person for a body corporate and the
body corporate no longer has a responsible person because
section 9(3)(c) applies to each responsible person for the body
corporate, the body corporate must, as soon as practicable, notify
the Director.
The Director must suspend the accreditation of an accredited
operator that is a body corporate if the body corporate ceases to
have any responsible persons because section 9(3)(c) applies to
each responsible person for the body corporate.
For a deponent who cannot read and is physically unable to sign or make a mark, the witness is required to certify both that the deponent signed or marked the affidavit and that the affidavit was made without either act. The evidentiary exception in rule 17.03(2) does not remove either stated certification requirement.
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the deponent signed his or her name or made a mark in the
person's presence.
If it appears to the person witnessing an affidavit that the deponent
is physically unable to sign his or her name or make a mark, the
the affidavit was made by the deponent without the deponent
signing his or her name or making a mark because the
deponent was physically unable to do so.
The mandatory charged-person notice assumes an analysis entitlement that the cited provision does not give every charged person.
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A police officer must make all reasonable attempts to serve on each
person who is, or is to be, charged with an offence in relation to the
property written notice of his or her entitlement under section 19PA
to have a sample or samples of the substance analysed or
examined.
A person who is the owner of a seized substance that:
Regulation 12(2)(a) says an approved access agreement is not required for regulated operations on Aboriginal land or vacant Crown land. Regulation 47(1) makes commencing regulated operations without one an offence, while its express exemption in regulation 47(3) concerns operations under Part 5G.
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An approved access agreement is not required:
(a) if the land where the regulated operations are to be carried out
is:
(i) Aboriginal land; or
(ii) vacant Crown land;
An interest holder commits an offence if the interest holder
commences regulated operations on land and the land is not the
subject of an approved access agreement.
An interest holder is exempt from subregulation (1) if the operations
are carried out under Part 5G.
Regulation 12(2)(a) removes the approved-access-agreement requirement for regulated operations on Aboriginal land or vacant Crown land. Regulation 49(1) nevertheless makes commencing regulated operations outside the ambit of an approved access agreement or its variation an offence, without an exception for those land categories.
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An approved access agreement is not required:
(a) if the land where the regulated operations are to be carried out
is:
(i) Aboriginal land; or
(ii) vacant Crown land;
An interest holder commits an offence if:
(a) the interest holder commences any regulated operations; and
(b) the regulated operations are not within the ambit of an
approved access agreement or a variation of an approved
access agreement.
Regulation 8 says nothing in Part 4 requires an approved access agreement for operations undertaken for its specified protective, emergency or legal-compliance purposes. Regulation 47(1), in Part 4, makes commencing regulated operations without one an offence; regulation 47(3) expressly exempts operations under Part 5G.
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Nothing in this Part requires an approved access agreement to be
in place, or for notice to be given, in order for an interest holder to
enter any land, or to carry out any operations or low impact
activities:
An interest holder commits an offence if the interest holder
commences regulated operations on land and the land is not the
subject of an approved access agreement.
An interest holder is exempt from subregulation (1) if the operations
are carried out under Part 5G.
The notification deadline can expire before the owner learns of an attack or alleged attack.
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The owner must notify the council of any attack, or alleged attack,
by the dangerous dog of a person or animal within 24 hours of the
earlier of the following:
(a) the time of the attack or alleged attack;
(b) the time the owner becomes aware of the attack or alleged
attack.
For subclauses (1)(a) and (2)(a), if D is equal to or more than JTW
or TW in respect of a month (as the case requires), the designated
group employer is not required to pay payroll tax in respect of that
month.