Suitability matters
34Z Suitability matters
Without limiting the reasons that the Regulator may consider that a person is not a suitable person to carry on or be associated with a tobacco supply business under a licence, a person is not a suitable person to carry on or be associated with a tobacco supply business under a licence if the person has been found guilty of any of the following offences within the preceding 5 years—
a suitability offence;
an indictable offence (other than an indictable offence that is a suitability offence) that in the Regulator's opinion is linked to or tends to be linked to unlawful tobacco activity or organised crime activity.
The Regulator may take into account any spent conviction in relation to an offence referred to in subsection (1) disclosed to the Regulator under the Spent Convictions Act 2021 that is recorded not more than 5 years before the date that the Regulator requested the information from the law enforcement agency.
In this section—
law enforcement agency has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Spent Convictions Act 2021;
spent conviction has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Spent Convictions Act 2021.
S. 34ZA inserted by No. 51/2024 s. 8.
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