OBS_VALUE: The New Zealand Transport Agency may grant a transport service licence if it is satisfied that the applicant or any person that is to have control of the transport service is a fit and proper person to hold a transport service licence. The factors that are taken into account when determining if one meets the fit and proper person criteria are: criminal conviction history, including charges or convictions relating to violent or sexual offences; drug or firearm offences, or offences involving organised criminal activity; any transport-related offending, especially offences relating to safety; any history of behavioural problems; any past complaints about a transport service provided by the person; any history of persistent failure to pay fines for transport-related offences.