Queensland Numbered Acts

POLICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2010 No. 45 - SECT 17

After section 50--

insert--

'(1) This section applies if, due to financial hardship caused by exceptional circumstances, an approved manager is unable to pay the annual certificate fee or the annual return fee for the approved manager's certificate by the prescribed day.

'(2) Despite section 44(4)(d)(i), the approved manager may apply to the Authority to pay the annual certificate fee or the annual 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 approved manager if the Authority is satisfied that, having regard to financial hardship caused by exceptional circumstances, the approved manager is unable to pay the annual certificate fee or the annual return fee for the approved manager's certificate by the prescribed day.

'(5) If the approved manager pays the annual certificate fee or the annual return fee under the payment plan, the approved manager is taken to have paid the annual certificate fee or the annual return fee by the prescribed day.

'(6) In this section--

exceptional circumstances means unforeseen circumstances that adversely affect premises stated in the approved manager's certificate as premises of a licensed brothel for the approved manager.

Example of unforeseen circumstances--

natural disaster or fire

'(1) This section applies if an approved manager--

(a) has failed to pay the annual certificate fee or the annual return fee for the certificate by the prescribed day; and

(b) has not entered into a payment plan decided by the Authority under section 50A.

'(2) The approved manager's certificate is automatically suspended for 28 days (the suspension period) starting the day after the prescribed day.

'(3) The suspension of the certificate ends if--

(a) the annual certificate fee or the annual return fee for the certificate is paid during the suspension period; or

(b) the approved manager enters into a payment plan decided by the Authority under section 50A.'.