5Licence applications—Act, s 17 (3)

5 Licence applications—Act, s 17 (3) A licence application must contain the following information: (a) the applicant’s name; (b) the construction occupation and class of construction occupation the application relates to; (c) any endorsement being applied for; (d) if the applicant is an individual— (i) the applicant’s date of birth; and (ii) the applicant’s home address; and (iii) if the applicant is applying for a principal building surveyor employee or general building surveyor employee licence— the name of the applicant’s employer or proposed employer; and (iv) the applicant’s mobile telephone number; (e) if the applicant is a partnership— (i) evidence of the existence of the partnership; and (ii) the name of each partner; and (iii) if a partner is a corporation—the partner’s ACN (if any); and (iv) the following for each of the applicant’s nominees: (A) the nominee’s name, business address, email address and mobile telephone number; (B) the nominee’s landline telephone number and fax number (if any);

(f) if the applicant is a corporation— (i) its ACN (if any); and (ii) the following for each of the applicant’s nominees: (A) the nominee’s name, business address, email address and mobile telephone number; (B) the nominee’s landline telephone number and fax number (if any); and (iii) if the history of the corporation is on a database kept by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission—an extract about the history of the corporation from the database; (g) the applicant’s— (i) business telephone number and email address; and (ii) fax number (if any); (h) if the application is for a licence as— (i) a building assessor—the name of the insurer who will provide the insurance mentioned in section 16B (Eligibility to be building assessor); or (ii) a building surveyor—the name of the insurer who will provide the insurance mentioned in section 17 (Eligibility to be building surveyor); or (iii) a plumbing plan certifier—the name of the insurer who will provide the insurance mentioned in section 18 (Eligibility to be plumbing plan certifier); or (iv) a works assessor—the name of the insurer who will provide the insurance mentioned in section 18A (Eligibility to be works assessor);

(i) evidence that the applicant is eligible to be licensed in the construction occupation or class of construction occupation applied for; (j) if an endorsement is being applied for—evidence that the applicant is capable of providing each construction service allowed to be provided under the endorsement; (k) whether the applicant has been licensed before and, if so, details of each previous licence; (l) whether the applicant has been convicted or found guilty of any offence involving fraud, dishonesty or violence, punishable by imprisonment for 1 year or more and, if so, details of each conviction or finding. Note Under the Spent Convictions Act 2000, an applicant need not include in an application certain spent convictions or extinguished convictions (see that Act, s 16 (c) (i) and s 19H (1) (c) (i)).