OCBA - Entitlement to be licensed

If you intend to work as an employee you are entitled to hold a licence if you:

hold the approved qualifications
are not suspended or disqualified from practising or carrying on an occupation, trade or business
have not been convicted of an offence listed in Schedule 1 of the Regulations and
are a fit and proper person.

If you intend to operate a business you are entitled to hold a licence if you:

hold the approved qualifications (or one of your business partners is qualified);
have sufficient business knowledge, experience and financial resources (or together your business partnership does)

are not suspended or disqualified from practising or carrying on an occupation, trade or business
are not an undischarged bankrupt or have not been subject to a composition or deed or scheme of arrangement with or for the benefit of creditors
have not, during the period of five years preceding the application for a licence, been a director for a body corporate that has been wound-up for the benefit of creditors
have not been convicted of an offence listed in Schedule 1 of the Regulations and
are a fit and proper person.

Your company is entitled to hold a licence if:

it has not been suspended or disqualified from carrying on an occupation, trade or business
it is not being wound up and is not under official management or receivership
it has sufficient financial resources
together the directors have sufficient business knowledge and experience
each director is not, in the last five years, a director of a company wound up for the benefit of creditors
each director has not been suspended or disqualified from carrying on an occupation, trade or business
each director has not been convicted of an offence listed in Schedule 1 of the Regulations and
each director is a fit and proper person.

If the Commissioner refuses your licence you can appeal to the District Court within one month from the date of refusal.

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