Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Secretary must refuse an application by an applicant for a public weighbridge licence for a single weighbridge if:
(a) the applicant is an individual who has not reached the age of 18 years; or
(b) the applicant holds a licence under this Act that is suspended; or
(c) the applicant is disqualified under this Act from holding a licence under this Act; or
(d) neither:
(i) the applicant; nor
(ii) an employee of the applicant; nor
(iii) a person who has contracted with the applicant to operate the weighbridge; nor
(iv) any employee of a person mentioned in subparagraph (iii);
is competent to operate a public weighbridge; or
(e) the applicant or a person who has contracted with the applicant to operate the weighbridge is not likely to carry on the operation of a public weighbridge honestly and fairly; or
(f) the applicant or a person who has contracted with the applicant to operate the weighbridge is in any other way not a fit and proper person to operate a public weighbridge; or
(g) the Secretary considers that the weighbridge is not suitable for use as a public weighbridge.
(2) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (1)(f), the Secretary may have regard to any or all of the following matters in determining whether the applicant or a person who has contracted with the applicant to operate the weighbridge (the contractor ) is a fit and proper person to operate a public weighbridge:
(a) whether the applicant or the contractor has, during the period of 10 years that immediately preceded the making of the application, been convicted of, or served any part of a term of imprisonment for, an offence (whether under the law of the Commonwealth or any other law) involving fraud or dishonesty;
(b) whether the applicant or the contractor was, when the application was made, the subject of a charge pending in relation to such an offence;
(c) whether the applicant or the contractor has, at any time, been convicted of an offence against this Act or an earlier corresponding law;
(d) whether the applicant or the contractor has been refused a licence under this Act or an earlier corresponding law.