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Part 2Licences and certificates
Certificates: how to get them

29Complaints by Police about certificate holders, licence holders, and persons concerned in management of company

  1. The Commissioner of Police may, at any time, make a complaint to a Licensing Authority about—

  2. a certificate holder; or
    1. a licence holder; or
      1. a person who is concerned in the management of a company that is a licence holder.

        1. A Licensing Authority must send a copy of any complaint received to the person concerned, and sections 26 and 27 apply as if the complaint were a Police objection made under section 25.

        2. If the Licensing Authority upholds the complaint, he or she must,—

        3. in the case of a certificate holder, cancel the certificate:
          1. in the case of a licence holder, cancel the licence:
            1. in the case of a person concerned in the management of a company that is a licence holder,—
              1. advise the company that a Police complaint against the person has been upheld and that the person is no longer eligible to hold a certificate; and
                1. 2 weeks after that advice is sent, cancel the company’s licence unless, within that time, the company advises the Licensing Authority that the person is no longer a person concerned in the management of the company.

                Compare
                • 1908 No 141 s 14
                • 1963 No 10 s 17
                Notes
                • Section 29(1): amended, on , by section 304 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).
                • Section 29(2): amended, on , by section 304 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).