'Huge uncertainty' for Private Sector over Business Licence Reforms

Thu, Nov 4th 2010, 11:00 PM

CONCERNS that the Government's Business Licence reforms were causing the private sector "a great magnitude of uncertainty" were raised yesterday, one attorney telling Tribune Business that the ability to suspend or revoke a firm's licence "for other good cause" was too vague, especially in the absence of a clearly defined appeals process. Sharlyn Smith, an attorney with Sharon Wilson & Company, told Tribune Business she was preparing a letter to send to Zhivargo Laing, minister of state for finance, outlining her concerns that Section 7 in the new Business Licence Act gave seemingly "extremely wide" powers to the......

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