16Registration of persons

16 Registration of persons

(1) Subject to this section, a person may be registered under this section for the purposes of this Act. (2) An application for registration under this section may be made at any time before 1 March 1990 to the CEO, in accordance with the appropriate approved form, by a person who at that time produces bountiable photographic film at premises in Australia that are used solely or principally for industrial or commercial purposes. (3) Subject to subsections (6), (8) and (10), where an application for registration is made under subsection (2) by a person (in this subsection called the applicant) who, in the opinion of the CEO, is entitled under subsection (2) to make such an application, the CEO must: (a) register the applicant for the purposes of this Act by: (i) signing a notice, in writing, specifying the day on which it was signed and stating that the applicant has been registered for the purposes of this Act; and (ii) causing the notice to be served on the applicant; or (b) refuse to register the applicant for the purposes of this Act and cause a notice, in writing, stating that the CEO has refused to register the applicant for those purposes to be served on the applicant. (4) The registration of a person under this section has effect from and including 1 January 1990. (5) The regulations may prescribe conditions to be met by an applicant for registration under this section, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a condition requiring the applicant to be a person included in a specified class of persons. (6) If conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of subsection (5), the CEO must not register the person under this section unless: (a) the CEO is satisfied that the conditions are, or will be, met by the person; or (b) registration of the person is otherwise permitted under the regulations. (7) The regulations may prescribe conditions to be complied with by a person registered under this section in connection with the production of, or sensitising or finishing operations in respect of, bountiable photographic film of a particular kind. (8) If conditions have been prescribed for the purposes of subsection (7), the CEO must not register a person under this section unless: (a) the CEO is satisfied that the conditions have been, or will be, complied with by the person; or (b) registration of the person is otherwise permitted under the regulations. (9) Nothing in subsection (5) or (7) is to be taken to imply that different conditions may not be prescribed under that subsection in respect of different periods during which a person is registered under this section. (10) The CEO may require an applicant for registration under this section to give such information as the CEO considers necessary for the purposes of this Act and may refuse to register the person until the information is given to the satisfaction of the CEO. (11) Where, at any time, the CEO becomes satisfied, in respect of a person registered under this section, that the person has failed to comply with a condition prescribed under subsection (5) or (7), the CEO may cancel the registration of the person by causing a notice, in writing, stating that the registration of the person has been cancelled to be served on the person.