Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LIQUOR CONTROL ACT 1988 - SECT 37B

37B .         Fingerprints etc., licensing authority’s powers to obtain

        (1)         The licensing authority 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 member of the Police Force.

        (2)         This subsection applies to a person who makes an application to the licensing authority —

            (a)         for a licence; or

            (b)         for approval to occupy a position of authority in a body corporate that is a licensee; or

            (c)         for approval as an approved unrestricted manager or an approved restricted manager.

        (3)         This subsection applies to —

            (a)         a licensee; or

            (b)         a person who occupies a position of authority in a body corporate that is a licensee; or

            (c)         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).

        (4)         If a person to whom subsection (2) applies refuses to comply with an identification notice, the licensing authority may refuse the relevant application.

        (5)         If a person to whom subsection (3) applies refuses to comply with an identification notice, a proper cause for disciplinary action under section 96 is to be taken to have been made out in respect of the person.

        (6)         The Commissioner of Police is to cause fingerprints and palm prints taken under this section and any copy of them to be destroyed —

            (a)         in the case of fingerprints or palm prints taken from a person to whom subsection (2) applies —

                  (i)         if the relevant application is not granted; or

                  (ii)         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

            (b)         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.

        (7)         The licensing authority is to provide the Commissioner of Police with any information that the Commissioner of Police requires to comply with subsection (6).

        [Section 37B inserted by No. 73 of 2006 s. 31; No. 56 of 2010 s. 10.]

        [Heading inserted by No. 73 of 2006 s. 32.]