Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 101

101 Functions of Authority

The Authority has the following functions—

(a) to decide licence applications;

(b) to decide approved manager applications;

(c) to monitor the provision of prostitution through licensed brothels;

(d) to conduct disciplinary inquiries in relation to licensees and approved managers;

(e) to discipline licensees and approved managers;

(f) to receive complaints about prostitution;

(g) to liaise with the police service and other agencies prescribed under a regulation with a view to helping them in carrying out their functions in relation to prostitution;

(h) to collect fees under this Act;

(i) to inform relevant government departments and agencies about possible offences that are detected while carrying out its functions;

(j) to advise the Minister about ways of promoting and coordinating programs that—

(i) promote sexual health care; or

(ii) help prostitutes to leave prostitution; or

(iii) divert minors and other vulnerable persons from prostitution, especially opportunistic prostitution; or

(iv) raise, in prostitutes, judicial officers, police, community workers and the community, awareness of issues about prostitution;

(k) to advise the Minister about the development of codes of practice for licensed brothels;

(l) to raise, in prostitutes, judicial officers, police, community workers and the community, awareness of issues about prostitution.