Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROPERTY LAW ACT 1974 - SECT 142

142 Mode of proceeding

(1) Subject to this Act proceedings under this division for the recovery of possession of any land referred to in section 141 may be heard and determined by a Magistrates Court in a summary way under the Justices Act 1886 , upon the complaint in writing of the landlord or the landlord’s agent.

(2) The complaint shall be heard and determined at a place where it could be heard and determined were it a complaint for a breach of duty committed in the Magistrates Courts district within which the land concerned is situated or, where the land concerned is situated in more than 1 such district, in any of those districts.