Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH (INFECTION CONTROL FOR PERSONAL APPEARANCE SERVICES) ACT 2003 - SECT 19

19 Obligation of business proprietor and operator

(1) A business proprietor must—

(a) take all reasonable precautions and care to minimise the risk of infection (the
"infection risk" ) to the proprietor’s clients; and

(b) ensure each operator employed or otherwise engaged by the proprietor takes all reasonable precautions and care to minimise the infection risk to the proprietor’s clients.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

Note—

This provision is an executive liability provision—see section 142 .

(2) An operator must take all reasonable precautions and care to minimise the infection risk when providing personal appearance services to a client.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.

Note—

This provision is an executive liability provision—see section 142 .

(3) Division 4 provides for defences relating to this section.