Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 102

102 Membership

(1) The Authority consists of the following persons appointed as members by the Governor in Council—

(a) the chairperson, who is an independent and appropriately qualified member of the community nominated by the Premier;

(b) the commissioner, or a police officer of at least the rank of superintendent nominated by the commissioner;

(c) the chairperson, or the senior executive officer (crime), of the Crime and Corruption Commission;

(d) a health practitioner who has at least 5 years experience in the practitioner’s profession;

(e) a lawyer who has been admitted for at least 5 years and has knowledge of or experience in administrative law, company law or criminal law;

(f) a person who represents local government;

(g) 2 persons who represent community interests.

(2) The members of the Authority are to be appointed under this Act and not under the Public Sector Act 2022 .

(3) A person mentioned in subsection (1) (g) must not be a person who has, or has had, a business interest in a brothel or in the provision of prostitution services.

(4) In this section—

"health practitioner" means—

(a) a doctor; or

(b) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law —

(i) to practise in the nursing profession, other than as a student; and

(ii) in the registered nurses division of that profession; or

(c) a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise in the psychology profession, other than as a student.

"senior executive officer (crime)" , of the Crime and Corruption Commission, see the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 , section 245 (3) (a) .