Western Australian Consolidated Acts

DEBT COLLECTORS LICENSING ACT 1964 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This reprint is a compilation as at 23 September 2011 of the Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table ^1a. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964	108 of 1964 (13 Eliz. No. 108)	23 Dec 1964	1 May 1965 (see s. 2 and Gazette 15 Apr 1965 p. 1041)
Decimal Currency Act 1965	113 of 1965	21 Dec 1965	Act other than s. 4-9: 21 Dec 1965 (see s. 2(1)); s. 4-9: 14 Feb 1966 (see s. 2(2))
Debt Collectors Licensing Act Amendment Act 1966	21 of 1966	17 Oct 1966	17 Oct 1966
Reprint of the Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964 approved 2 Feb 1972 (includes amendments listed above)
Acts Amendment (Financial Administration and Audit) Act 1985 s. 3	98 of 1985	4 Dec 1985	1 Jul 1986 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Jun 1986 p. 2255)
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Financial Sector Reform) Act 1999 s. 73	26 of 1999	29 Jun 1999	1 Jul 1999 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 30 Jun 1999 p. 2905)
Reprint 2: The Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964 as at 7 Mar 2003 (includes amendments listed above)
Sentencing Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2003 s. 55	50 of 2003	9 Jul 2003	15 May 2004 (see s. 2 and Gazette 14 May 2004 p. 1445)
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Courts and Legal Practice) Act 2003 s. 28	65 of 2003	4 Dec 2003	1 Jan 2004 (see s. 2 and Gazette 30 Dec 2003 p. 5722)
Courts Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 s. 141 2	59 of 2004 (as amended by No. 2 of 2008 s. 77(13))	23 Nov 2004	1 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7128)
State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 2 Div. 35 3, 4	55 of 2004	24 Nov 2004	1 Jan 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7130)
Reprint 3: The Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964 as at 26 May 2006 (includes amendments listed above)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 Sch. 1 cl. 44	77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006	1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Legal Profession Act 2008 s. 658	21 of 2008	27 May 2008	1 Mar 2009 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 27 Feb 2009 p. 511)

Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 51	19 of 2010	28 Jun 2010	11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)
Acts Amendment (Fair Trading) Act 2010 s. 181	58 of 2010	8 Dec 2010	1 Jan 2011 (see s. 2(c) and Gazette 24 Dec 2010 p. 6805)
Reprint 4: The Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964 as at 23 Sep 2011 (includes amendments listed above)

^1a On the date as at which this reprint was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in compiling the reprint. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Business Licensing Amendment Act 1995 Pt. 3 5	56 of 1995	20 Dec 1995	To be proclaimed (see s. 2(2))

² The Courts Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 13 was repealed by the Criminal Law and Evidence Amendment Act 2008 s. 77(13).

³ The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28, 42 and 46 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.

⁴ The State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 46 reads as follows:

46. Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964

(1) In this regulation —

commencement day means the day on which the State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Part 2 Division 35 comes into operation;

Commissioner has the meaning given to that term in the Consumer Affairs Act 1971 section 4(1);

DCL Act means the Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964.

(2) If immediately before the commencement day, a Clerk of a Local Court possesses —

(a) a register kept under the DCL Act section 12;

(b) a notice given to the Clerk under the DCL Act section 15(4); or

(c) a fidelity bond or approved security lodged under the DCL Act section 20(1),

as soon as possible after the commencement day, the Clerk is to send those records or documents to the Commissioner.

⁵ On the date as at which this reprint was prepared, the Business Licensing Amendment Act 1995 Pt. 3 had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

Part 3 — Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964

6. Principal Act

In this Part the Debt Collectors Licensing Act 1964 is referred to as the principal Act.

7. Section 7 amended

Section 7 of the principal Act is amended by repealing subsections (4) and (5).

8. Section 9A inserted

After section 9 of the principal Act the following section is inserted —

9A. Duration of licence

(1) On granting a licence, the Court shall fix the period during which, subject to this Act, the licence is to have effect.

(2) The period fixed under subsection (1) shall be a period that is —

(a) not less that 12 months; and

(b) not more than the prescribed period.

(3) If an application for the renewal of a licence is made under section 8 before the licence has expired the licence may be renewed for the prescribed period.

(4) If an application for the renewal of a licence is made under section 8 after, but within 28 days of, the day on which the licence expired, and any amount prescribed by way of penalty for a late application is paid, the Court may renew that licence for the prescribed period and in that event the renewal of the licence shall be taken for all purposes to have taken effect on the day immediately succeeding the day on which the previous licence expired.

(5) In this section —

prescribed period means a period of not less than 12 months prescribed by the regulations.

9. Section 12A inserted ⁶

After section 12 of the principal Act the following section is inserted —

12A. Change of particulars

(1) The holder of a licence shall give written notice to the Clerk of the Court in which the licence was granted or made of any change in the particulars specified in the licence as soon as practicable after that change takes place.

(2) A notice given under subsection (1) shall be accompanied by the relevant licence.

(3) The Clerk of the Court shall enter in the register, and endorse on the relevant licence, details of any change notified to the Clerk under subsection (1).

10. Section 26 amended

Section 26 of the principal Act is amended —

(a) by inserting after the section designation “26.” the subsection designation “(1)”; and

(b) by adding the following subsection —

(2) Subsections (1) and (2) of section 45 of the Interpretation Act 1984 apply in respect of fees prescribed under this Act despite sections 3(3) and 45(3) of that Act.

⁶ The insertion of s. 12A by the Business Licensing Amendment Act 1995 s. 9 would conflict with an amendment in the State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 s. 226.

Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
bank 3
Commissioner 3
debt collector 3
licence 3
licensee 3, 16(2)
money 3
money received for or on behalf of any person 3
to pay into a trust account 3
trust account 3
trust money 3