(1) The application must be accompanied by the following ¾

(a) 4 coloured passport-size photographs of the applicant taken no earlier than 6 months before the application is lodged with the Commission;

(b) certified copies of any documents required by the Commission as evidence of the truth of the particulars set out in the application;

(c) an authority authorising the Commission and the Commissioner of Police to make inquiries in Australia or overseas (or both) about the applicant's character and financial standing;

(d) if the applicant is a resident of another country ¾ a certificate by the police or other appropriate authority of the country stating whether or not the applicant has been convicted of a criminal offence in that country;

(e) a declaration by the applicant in accordance with regulation 7, attesting to the truth of the information given in the application and indemnifying the Commission against any loss arising from the applicant's conduct of the proposed junkets.

(2) If the application is for approval to conduct junkets as a junket operator's representative, the application must also be accompanied by a copy of an agreement between the operator and the representative, in a form approved by the Commission, authorising the representative to carry out junkets on behalf of the operator and setting out any conditions to which the representative's authority is subject.

(3) The Commission may accept an application without the certificate referred to in paragraph (1)(d) if the applicant is unable to provide a certificate for reasons beyond his or her control.