Costly Licensing Application Requirements

This provision requires criminal record attestations for all company officers and equipment examination fees as part of the license application process. While these requirements may be appropriate for regulated professions, they create significant compliance costs and administrative barriers when applied broadly to "meteorological data services" and "any business connected with meteorological services" under 29. The criminal record requirement involves processing sensitive personal data without specified safeguards, and the unspecified equipment fees create cost uncertainty for business planning. Combined with Authority-determined application requirements in 31, these provisions impose disproportionate barriers to market entry for weather information services that are typically unregulated in OECD democracies.