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The standards behind licensing and permits

Regulator best-practice principles, natural justice before adverse action, discretion exercised by a person, statutory clocks, ask once, fit-and-proper tests within the instrument, automatic mutual recognition, public registers and cost recovery, with where each shows up.

Standard	Source	Requirement	Where it shows up here
Regulator best practice	Productivity Commission regulator best-practice principles (AU); UK Regulators' Code; OECD regulatory policy	Risk-based, proportionate, consistent, transparent; the same rules applied to every applicant; decisions timely and explained.	Criteria published on each licence type and tested the same way for every application with the provision and the fact cited (GL-LC-04); risk class per type sets what may issue under delegation.
Natural justice before adverse action	Administrative law; show-cause provisions in licensing Acts	Notice of the proposed decision and the grounds, a chance to respond, a decision by a person with reasons and review rights.	Refusals, suspensions and revocations: the agent drafts the grounds and issues show cause; the delegated officer cannot decide while the period is open without a response (GL-LC-01).
Discretion exercised by a person	Licensing Acts (conditions provisions); administrative law on relevance and certainty of conditions	Conditions must be lawful, relevant and certain; discretion beyond the published standard set is exercised by the delegate.	Standard conditions applied by the agent; any non-standard condition is drafted with its precedent and decided by the delegate (GL-LC-02).
Statutory timeframes and deemed approval	Statutory decision periods in planning, food, liquor and occupational licensing Acts	Decide within the period; where deemed approval applies, never let it operate by accident.	Every application carries its statutory due date; ask-once pauses the clock only where the Act allows (GL-LC-03); applications near deemed approval are escalated (GL-LC-07).
Ask once and tell us once	Digital Service Standard (AU); GDS Service Standard (UK); Once-Only principle (EU)	Ask for missing information once, in one list; use what government already holds.	One information request per application; monitoring data from MG-07 and fee status from MG-04 verify renewals without asking the licensee.
Fit-and-proper tests	Liquor, security, transport and occupational licensing Acts; privacy law	Only the checks the instrument authorises, with consent, against a stated threshold, with the result on the record.	Consent on the licensee record; the check and its threshold in the assessment record (GL-LC-05).
Automatic mutual recognition	Mutual Recognition Act and the automatic mutual recognition scheme for occupational licences (AU); EU professional qualifications directive	A current licence in a recognised class from another jurisdiction is recognised on notification, subject to local conditions.	Mutual-recognition applications are recognised automatically where the interstate licence is current, with local standard conditions applied (GL-LC-09).
Public registers	Licensing Acts' register provisions; open government policy	A public register of licences, conditions and status, kept current.	Every issue, condition, suspension, revocation and expiry updates the register when decided (GL-LC-08); `/licence-register` is public.
Cost recovery	Australian Government Charging Framework; state cost-recovery guidelines	Fees set to recover the efficient cost of the regulatory activity, published and applied consistently.	Fee per licence type as configuration; fee status flows from MG-04 into renewals and triggers.
Accessibility and plain language	WCAG 2.2 AA; ISO 24495-1	Every screen usable with assistive technology; notices a licensee can understand.	Interfaces designed against WCAG 2.2 AA with conformance evidenced per deployment; notices written plainly.