8. Section 8 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:
“8. (1) The Commissioner shall, not later than 5 days before the date appointed for the hearing of an application for a licence, furnish to the Registrar for the use of the Court a certificate stating whether, according to the records held by the Commissioner, it appears that the applicant has been charged with, or convicted of, any offence against a law of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State, another Territory or another country.
“(2) The applicant is entitled to inspect a certificate under subsection (1).”.