6Application for meat export licence

6 Application for meat export licence

(1) For subsection 11 (1) of the Act, an application for a meat export licence must be in writing, and must set out: (a) the name, address and date of birth of the applicant; and (b) the name and address of each person in management and control; and

Note: For the meaning of person in management and control, see subregulation 3 (1) and section 8 of the Act.

(d) whether the applicant, or any person in management and control in the meat export business or proposed meat export business, has been charged with an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory, for which the maximum penalty is a period of imprisonment or a fine of at least $1,000; and
(e) subject to Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914—whether the applicant, or any person in management and control in the meat export business or proposed meat export business, has been convicted (within the meaning given by subsection 85ZM (1) of that Act) of an offence against a law of the Commonwealth or a State or Territory, for which the maximum penalty is a period of imprisonment or a fine of at least $1,000.

Note: Subsection 85ZM (1) of the Crimes Act 1914 is as follows:

Note: (1) For the purposes of this Part, a person shall be taken to have been convicted of an offence if:

Note: (a) the person has been convicted, whether summarily or on indictment, of the offence;

Note: (b) the person has been charged with, and found guilty of, the offence but discharged without conviction; or

Note: (c) the person has not been found guilty of the offence, but a court has taken it into account in passing sentence on the person for another offence.

(2) If the applicant is an individual, the application must also set out: (a) whether the applicant operates, or intends to operate, the business in partnership with another individual or a body corporate; and (b) if the applicant operates, or intends to operate, the business in partnership—the name and address of each partner or proposed partner. (3) If the applicant is a corporation, the application must also set out: (a) its Australian Company Number; and (b) whether the applicant is a subsidiary of, or is under the direction or financial control of, a foreign corporation, authority or organisation that has direct or indirect control of the importation of meat into the country in which the foreign corporation, authority or organisation was incorporated or established and, if that is so, the name of the foreign corporation, authority or organisation. (4) An application must include a declaration, signed by the applicant (or, if the applicant is a corporation, a director of the corporation): (a) to the effect that the information in the application is true in every material detail; and (b) that the person who signs the declaration knows that giving false information is an offence.