Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROSTITUTION ACT 1999 - SECT 54E

54E Attendance notice

(1) The Authority may, by notice given to a relevant person (an
"attendance notice" ), require the person—

(a) to attend a hearing at a stated time and place to give evidence; or

(b) to produce stated documents or other things at a hearing.

(2) For subsection (1) , the Authority may act on its own initiative or on the application, in the approved form, of an approved manager.

(3) If a document is given to the Authority under subsection (1) , the Authority may make a copy of, or take an extract from, it.

(4) A person given an attendance notice must not fail, without reasonable excuse—

(a) to attend as required by the notice; or

(b) to continue to attend as required by the Authority until excused from further attendance.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(5) Also, at a hearing, a person appearing as a witness must not—

(a) fail to take an oath or make an affirmation when required by the Authority; or

(b) fail, without reasonable excuse, to answer a question the Authority requires the person to answer; or

(c) fail, without reasonable excuse, to produce a document or other thing the person is required to produce by an attendance notice.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.

(6) It is a reasonable excuse for an individual to fail to answer a question or to produce a document or other thing, if answering the question or producing the document or thing might tend to incriminate the individual.

(7) In this section—

"relevant person" means a person the Authority considers has information relevant to the disciplinary inquiry conducted about an approved manager.