Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 140

140 Regulation-making power

(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations under this Act.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1) , a regulation may be made about any of the following matters—

(a) fees;

(b) records to be kept by licensees;

(c) documents, including financial statements, to be given to the Authority by licensees and when they are required to be given;

(d) the auditing of financial statements;

(e) advertising in relation to licensed brothels or social escort services;

(f) assessment benchmarks for the Planning Act for the assessment under that Act of assessable development that is a material change of use of premises for a brothel, other than an assessment carried out by the chief executive of the department in which that Act is administered;

(g) a code of practice for licensed brothels;

(h) the development of processes by the Authority to deal with complaints by licensees, including the principles with which the processes must comply;

(i) advertising by individual prostitutes, including the approval of the advertising by the Authority.

(3) A regulation may also create offences and impose penalties of not more than 40 penalty units for an offence against a regulation.