Minister may direct licensee to terminate certain contractual arrangements
67 Minister may direct licensee to terminate certain contractual arrangements
If a person who is a contractor of a licensee does not comply with a direction given to the person under section 66, the Minister may, by notice in writing, direct the licensee to terminate, within a time specified in the notice, the contract or other arrangement under which the person is a contractor of the licensee.
A licensee who does not comply with a notice given to the licensee under this section is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
It is taken to be a condition of any contract or other arrangement entered into between a licensee and a contractor that the licensee has the rights required to enable the licensee to give effect to a direction to which this section applies.
The termination of a contract or other arrangement in accordance with this section has effect despite any other Act or law and neither the State nor the Minister incurs any liability by reason of that termination.
The regulations can exempt specified contracts or other arrangements or specified classes of contracts or other arrangements from the operation of this section. The effect of such an exemption is that a contract or other arrangement to which the exemption applies cannot be the subject of a direction under this section.
This provision refers to the regulations (The regulations
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
The statute text is free to read above. View subscription options to unlock the case-law research tools for each provision.