53 Grounds for refusing to issue a certificate

53  Grounds for refusing to issue a certificate

(1)     The grounds on which the Commission may refuse an application for a public collections certificate are—

(a)     that the applicant has been convicted of a relevant offence;

(b)     where the applicant is a person other than a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution for whose benefit the collections are proposed to be conducted, that the Commission is not satisfied that the applicant is authorised (whether by any such institution or by any person acting on behalf of any such institution) to promote the collections;

(c)     that it appears to the Commission that the applicant, in promoting any other collection authorised under this Chapter or under section 119 of the 1982 Act, failed to exercise the required due diligence;

(d)     that the Commission is not satisfied that the applicant will exercise the required due diligence in promoting the proposed collections;

(e)     that it appears to the Commission that the amount likely to be applied for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes in consequence of the proposed collections would be inadequate, having regard to the likely amount of the proceeds of the collections;

(f)     that it appears to the Commission that the applicant or any other

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