Queensland Consolidated Acts

PROPERTY OCCUPATIONS ACT 2014 - SECT 217

217 Chief executive to ask for substantiation of representations made by marketeers

(1) This section applies if the chief executive believes, on reasonable grounds, that a marketeer has made a representation in contravention of section 209 (1) or (2) .

(2) The chief executive may, by written notice, ask the person to give to the chief executive written proof supporting the representation.

(3) The notice must—

(a) state a day, at least 14 days after the day the notice is given to the person, by which the person must give the proof to the chief executive; and

(b) warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the notice by the stated day, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

(4) The person must comply with the notice by the stated day, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—540 penalty units.

(5) It is a reasonable excuse for an individual to fail to comply with subsection (4) that complying with the subsection might tend to incriminate the individual.