Fingerprints and palm prints may be required
37B Fingerprints and palm prints may be required
The Director may by notice in writing (an identification notice) require a person to whom subsection (2) or (3) applies to attend at a specified place and there have his or her fingerprints and palm prints taken by a police officer.
This subsection applies to a person who makes an application —
for a licence; or
for approval to occupy a position of authority in a body corporate that is a licensee; or
for approval as an approved unrestricted manager or an approved restricted manager.
This subsection applies to —
a licensee; or
a person who occupies a position of authority in a body corporate that is a licensee; or
an approved unrestricted manager or an approved restricted manager,
whose fingerprints and palm prints have not been taken in accordance with an identification notice given for the purposes of an application referred to in subsection (2).
If a person to whom subsection (2) applies fails to comply with an identification notice, the Director may refuse the relevant application.
If a person to whom subsection (3) applies fails to comply with an identification notice, a proper cause for disciplinary action under section 96 is taken to have been made out in respect of the person.
The Commissioner of Police must cause fingerprints and palm prints taken under this section and any copy of them to be destroyed —
in the case of fingerprints or palm prints taken from a person to whom subsection (2) applies —
if the relevant application is refused; or
if, after the relevant application is granted, the person ceases to be a licensee, to occupy a position of authority in a body corporate that is a licensee, or to be an approved unrestricted manager or an approved restricted manager;
or
in the case of fingerprints or palm prints taken from a person to whom subsection (3) applies — if the person ceases to be a licensee, to occupy a position of authority in a body corporate that is a licensee, or to be an approved unrestricted manager or an approved restricted manager.
The Director must provide the Commissioner of Police with any information that the Commissioner of Police requires to comply with subsection (6).
[Section 37B inserted: No. 73 of 2006 s. 31; amended: No. 56 of 2010 s. 10; No. 25 of 2023 s. 21(1); No. 20 of 2025 s. 67 and 124(1).]
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