Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 44

44 The certificate

(1) A certificate authorises the holder of the certificate to be an approved manager of a licensed brothel at the premises stated in the certificate.

(2) A certificate may authorise the holder to be an approved manager of more than 1 licensed brothel.

(3) A certificate is for the term of 3 years unless it is sooner surrendered, suspended or cancelled.

(4) A certificate—

(a) is personal to the person approved as manager; and

(b) is not transferable to any other person; and

(c) does not vest by operation of law in any other person; and

(d) is subject to the following conditions or restrictions—

(i) the holder of the certificate must pay, by the day prescribed under a regulation, the annual certificate fee and the annual return fee prescribed under the regulation;

(ii) the holder of the certificate must, by the day prescribed under a regulation, give the Authority an annual return, in the approved form, about the information given for the application for the certificate;

(iii) any other conditions or restrictions set out in the certificate or prescribed under a regulation.

(5) Section 39 , with necessary changes, applies to an annual return as if—

(a) the annual return were an application for a certificate; and

(b) the holder of the certificate were an applicant for a certificate.