Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered ActsAfter section 24--
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'(1) This section applies if, due to financial hardship caused by exceptional circumstances, a licensee is unable to pay the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee for the licensee's licence by the prescribed day.
'(2) Despite section 19(5)(d)(i), a licensee may apply to the Authority to pay the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee under a payment plan decided by the Authority.
'(3) An application under subsection (2) must be in the approved form.
'(4) The Authority may enter into a payment plan with the licensee if the Authority is satisfied that, having regard to financial hardship caused by exceptional circumstances, the licensee is unable to pay the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee for the licensee's licence by the prescribed day.
'(5) If the licensee pays the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee under the payment plan, the licensee is taken to have paid the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee by the prescribed day.
'(6) In this section--
exceptional circumstances means unforeseen circumstances that adversely affect the premises stated in the licensee's licence as the premises where the licensee is authorised to operate a brothel.
Example of unforeseen circumstances--
natural disaster or fire
'(1) This section applies if a licensee--
(a) has failed to pay the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee for the licence by the prescribed day; and
(b) has not entered into a payment plan decided by the Authority under section 24A.
'(2) The licensee's licence is automatically suspended for 28 days (the suspension period) starting the day after the prescribed day.
'(3) The suspension of the licence ends if--
(a) the annual licence fee or the annual licence return fee for the licence is paid during the suspension period; or
(b) the licensee enters into a payment plan decided by the Authority under section 24A.'.