10Events of which licence holder must inform Secretary (Act, s 16)

10 Events of which licence holder must inform Secretary (Act, s 16)

(1) For section 16 of the Act, 7 days is prescribed. (2) For that section, the following events or circumstances in relation to a meat export licence are prescribed: (a) the licence holder ceases to carry on the meat export business to which the licence relates; (b) the licence holder, or a person in management and control of the business, is convicted of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, for which the maximum penalty is a period of imprisonment or a fine of at least $1,000; (c) a person who has been described to the Secretary, in the application for the licence, as a person in management and control of the business, ceases to be a person in management and control of the business; (d) a person who has not been described to the Secretary, in the application for the licence, as a person in management and control of the business, begins to be a person in management and control of the business; (e) the licence holder receives notice that the licence holder is no longer regarded as an approved supplier of meat by a foreign government importing authority, instrumentality or organisation; (f) a change of the licence holder’s name; (g) a change in the scope of the licence holder’s quality assurance system; (h) a change in the status of the licence holder’s quality assurance system (that is, the system becoming, or ceasing to be, accredited by the relevant standards body). (3) If the licence holder is a corporation, the following events or circumstances are also prescribed for that section: (a) a court orders that it be wound up; (b) a resolution is passed that it be wound up voluntarily. (4) If the licence holder is an individual, the following events or circumstances are also prescribed for that section: (a) he or she becomes bankrupt; (b) he or she executes a deed of arrangement or a deed of assignment under Part X of the Bankruptcy Act 1966; (c) if he or she operates the meat export business to which the licence relates in partnership: (i) the membership of the partnership is changed; or (ii) the partnership is dissolved.