(1) A licence under this Act may authorise collections to be made, money to be obtained, or entertainments to be conducted, for such period or for such occasions as the Minister thinks fit, or may authorise collections to be made, money to be obtained, or entertainments to be conducted, during such time as the licence remains unrevoked.

(2) A licence may be issued subject to any condition fixed by the Minister.

(3) A licence may at any time be revoked by the Minister as an administrative act.

(4) Where a condition of a licence requires that before being made, any proposed contract or arrangement, relating to payment from moneys in hand or to be obtained for any charitable purpose, shall be submitted to and approved by the Minister ¾

(a) any contract or arrangement made after the coming into operation of the Charitable Collections Act Amendment Act 1949 ¹, without having been so submitted and approved shall, subject to the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph, be void;

(b) any money received by any person in purported pursuance of a contract or arrangement which is void by virtue of the provisions of the last preceding subsection shall be recoverable in any court of competent jurisdiction as a debt due from that person at the suit of the Minister or a person authorised by him to sue.

(5) Where money is recovered pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) of the last preceding subsection, it shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be appropriated to the charitable purpose for which it was obtained, but if the cost of recovery has not been recovered, that cost may first be deducted.

[Section 12 amended by No. 2 of 1949 s. 3.]