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The Enterprise Licensing Authority web site has now merged with the Shopper Affairs Victoria web site.
Jurisdictional preparations for licensing stay the identical, nevertheless your whole licensing and regulation data is now obtainable within the one location on the Shopper Affairs Victoria web site.
You’ll be able to entry this data through the next hyperlinks:
Who we’re
Victoria’s Enterprise Licensing Authority (BLA) offers licences to companies that want one to function lawfully.
In performing our function, we steadiness the pursuits of enterprise, shoppers and the general public.
The BLA and Shopper Affairs Victoria share workplace area and work collectively intently.
The BLA is an unbiased regulator inside the Victorian Authorities’s Justice portfolio, working beneath the Enterprise Licensing Authority Act 1998 (the Act).
It licenses and registers:
- conveyancers
- property brokers
- motor automotive merchants
- house owners company managers
- rooming home operators
- second-hand sellers and pawnbrokers
- intercourse work service suppliers.
The Act requires that the Governor in Council appoints BLA members, who should be authorized practitioners with not less than 5 years expertise.
The BLA Registrar and workers from the Licensing department of Shopper Affairs Victoria additionally assist the BLA’s work.
The laws governing the BLA doesn’t require an annual report back to be produced.
What we do
Every member of the BLA makes choices about licence and registration functions. The Chairperson directs our operations and is accountable for the BLA’s efficiency.
It’s our job to make sure functions are handled pretty, effectively and legally. We should steadiness minimising the regulatory burden towards shopper safety points.
We make our choices based mostly on data collected from the applicant, different statutory businesses and our personal inquiries. We don’t maintain formal hearings or hear oral proof.
On a day-to-day foundation we:
- decide licence-related functions for related occupations and companies
- present accessible and clear details about licensing and registration standards and procedures
- preserve accessible public registers of all registrants and licensees
- impose and evaluate circumstances and restrictions on new and current licensees and registrants as applicable
- refer issues to the Director of Shopper Affairs Victoria or Victoria Police for investigation.
The Registrar:
- maintains our public registers
- manages our compliance with Freedom of Info and privateness laws
- manages appeals towards our choices.
Values and ideas
We function in line with the ideas of the:
- Public Administration Act 2004
- Council of Australian Authorities’s ideas of finest follow regulation
Higher enterprise regulation ideas within the Victorian Information to Regulation, overlaying:
- accountability
- transparency
- effectiveness
- effectivity
- equity.
Compliance and enforcement
The 2 businesses liable for compliance and enforcement in relation to enterprise licensing and registration are:
Shopper Affairs Victoria:
- offers details about candidates to us
- screens compliance and carries out investigations and enforcement
- engages and educates licensees and registrants.
- offers legal report checks and detailed studies to us
Victoria Police:
- investigates and enforces the legislation towards unlawful intercourse work service suppliers
VCAT
The jurisdiction of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) is to:
- hear appeals about our choices
- hear disciplinary proceedings initiated by Shopper Affairs Victoria or Victoria Police towards licensees and registrants.
Contact us
Phone
Sadly our cellphone traces are at present not open. Please use the BLA enquiry type.
E-mail/on-line
To electronic mail the BLA, full and lodge the BLA enquiry type.
Publish
Registrar
Enterprise Licensing Authority
GPO Field 322
Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia
Info and privateness
View our Info and privateness – Enterprise Licensing Authority web page.