Another example - the "good character" test will now be applied to the applicant companies themselves, not merely to the individuals owning and/or controlling them. And, for the first time, "not of good

People only find out after the event. The "good character" test for applicants is a joke. Most basically, the powers that be still don't know (and haven't made very much effort to find out) how much land

5/ The whole "good character" part of the Act needs to be considerably tightened up and defined. It is currently only applicable to individuals, including those owning and/or controlling applicant companies.

good character” criteria of the Overseas Investment Act. There were certainly plenty of characters in Natural Dairy's bid, on both sides of the proposed sale - indeed, scriptwriters for B movies would

Kim Dotcom And The Good Character Test: Money Versus Power”, http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/30/06.html). As I mentioned in my 2011 Report, the February quake badly damaged his eastern suburbs

OIC Happy With Its ‘Good Character’”, which is online at http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/95/12ameri.htm. It focused on the fact that ADM had been given approval that year by the Overseas Investment

querying the “good character” of the people owning or exercising control over the company (being of “good character”, which is conveniently not defined, is one of the requirements for foreign

Another example - the "good character" test will now be applied to the applicant companies themselves, not merely to the individuals owning and/or controlling them. And, for the first time, "not of good

other than a good character test, so there is no expectation that a business buy-up will do anything other than tell us whether the person is supposedly of good character, and there have been numerous

strictures of the time required foreign purchasers to be of good character. Suharto was already a thug and a crook. He is now serving a 15-year sentence for a series of offences, including paying a hitman