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Biosecurity Act 2014
sec.420Application for accreditation
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### sec.420 Application for accreditation
A person may apply to the chief executive for the grant of an accreditation.
An application for accreditation must—
be made in the approved form; and
be accompanied by the fee prescribed under a regulation.
If the applicant or, if the applicant is a corporation or an incorporated association, if an executive officer of the corporation or a member of the association’s management committee has a conviction for a relevant accreditation offence, other than a spent conviction, the application must include details of the offence and the circumstances of its commission.
Subsection (3) does not limit the information that may be required under the approved form.
A person who applies to the chief executive for a grant of an accreditation must not, in making the application, give the chief executive information that the person knows or ought reasonably to know is false or misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
(sec.420-ssec.1) A person may apply to the chief executive for the grant of an accreditation.
(sec.420-ssec.2) An application for accreditation must— be made in the approved form; and be accompanied by the fee prescribed under a regulation.
(sec.420-ssec.3) If the applicant or, if the applicant is a corporation or an incorporated association, if an executive officer of the corporation or a member of the association’s management committee has a conviction for a relevant accreditation offence, other than a spent conviction, the application must include details of the offence and the circumstances of its commission.
(sec.420-ssec.4) Subsection (3) does not limit the information that may be required under the approved form.
(sec.420-ssec.5) A person who applies to the chief executive for a grant of an accreditation must not, in making the application, give the chief executive information that the person knows or ought reasonably to know is false or misleading in a material particular. Maximum penalty—200 penalty units.
- (a) be made in the approved form; and
- (b) be accompanied by the fee prescribed under a regulation.