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An Act to minimise the risk of infection that may result from the provision of personal appearance services, and for other purposes
This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Infection Control for Personal Appearance Services) Act 2003.
Division 2 Application and purpose of Act
This Act does not apply to a personal appearance service provided in a health-care facility.
(1)This Act binds all persons.
(2)However, except for part 2, division 1, this Act does not bind the State.
(3)Nothing in this Act makes the State liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
5Contravention of this Act does not create civil cause of action
No provision of this Act creates a civil cause of action based on a contravention of the provision.
7Purpose of Act
8How purpose is to be achieved
(a)requiring business proprietors and operators to take reasonable precautions and care to minimise infection risks; and
(b)requiring business proprietors whose business provides higher risk personal appearance services to hold a licence; and
(c)requiring operators providing higher risk personal appearance services to hold an infection control qualification; and
Division 3 Administration and enforcement
9Local government to administer Act
(1)The administration and enforcement of this Act is a function of local government for each local government’s local government area.
(2)To remove doubt, it is declared that a local government may do either or both of the following—
(a)make a resolution or local law that is not inconsistent with this Act about the fees payable to it for providing a service or taking action under this Act;
(b)make a local law that is not inconsistent with this Act about any matter dealt with by this Act for which it is necessary or convenient to make provision for carrying out or giving effect to the matter.
(3)A resolution or local law under subsection (2)(a) may only prescribe a fee for providing a service or taking action that—
(a)is not more than the cost to the local government of providing the service or taking the action for which the fee is charged; and
(b)if a fee is prescribed under a regulation for providing the service or taking the action, is not more than the fee prescribed.
(a)the chief executive is satisfied a local government has failed to do anything in the administration or enforcement of this Act; or
(b)a local government and the chief executive agree that the chief executive do anything in the administration or enforcement of this Act.
(5)The chief executive may do the thing and, if subsection (4)(a) applies, the reasonable costs and expenses incurred by the chief executive are a debt payable by the local government to the State.
(6)Without limiting subsections (4) and (5), the chief executive may perform the functions and exercise the powers of a local government including appointing the following to be authorised persons for this Act—
(a)a public service employee in the department;
(b)a health service employee under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011.
(7)An appointment under subsection (6) may be made before or after a failure under subsection (4)(a) or an agreement under subsection (4)(b).
s 9 amd 2011 No. 32s 332sch 1pt 2 (amd 2012 No. 9s 47)
11Meaning of beauty therapy
Beauty therapy means a procedure, other than hairdressing, intended to maintain, alter or enhance a person’s appearance, including the following—
(a)facial or body treatments;
(b)application of cosmetics;
(c)manicure or pedicure;
(d)application of, or mending, artificial nails;
(e)epilation including by electrolysis or hot or cold wax.
12Meaning of body piercing
(1)Body piercing means the process of penetrating a person’s skin or mucous membrane with a sharp instrument for the purpose of implanting jewellery or other foreign material through or into the skin or mucous membrane.
(2)However, it does not include the process of piercing a person’s ear or nose with a closed piercing instrument that—
(a)does not come into contact with the person’s skin or mucous membrane; and
(b)is fitted with a sterilised single-use disposable cartridge containing sterilised jewellery and fittings.
13Meaning of hairdressing
Hairdressing means a procedure intended to maintain, alter or enhance a person’s appearance involving facial or scalp hair and includes cutting, trimming, styling, colouring, treating or shaving the hair.
14Meaning of higher risk personal appearance service
Higher risk personal appearance service means a personal appearance service involving any of the following skin penetration procedures in which the release of blood or other bodily fluid is an expected result—
(a)body piercing;
(b)implanting natural or synthetic substances into a person’s skin, including, for example, hair or beads;
(c)scarring or cutting a person’s skin using a sharp instrument to make a permanent mark, pattern or design;
(d)tattooing;
(e)another skin penetration procedure prescribed under a regulation.
15Meaning of non-higher risk personal appearance service
Non-higher risk personal appearance service means a personal appearance service other than a higher risk personal appearance service.
16Meaning of personal appearance service
Personal appearance service means beauty therapy, hairdressing or skin penetration that is provided as part of a business transaction.
17Meaning of skin penetration
Skin penetration means a procedure intended to alter or enhance a person’s appearance that involves the piercing, cutting, scarring, scraping, puncturing, or tearing of a person’s skin or mucous membrane with an instrument.
18Meaning of tattooing
(1)Tattooing means the process of penetrating a person’s skin and inserting into it colour pigments to make a permanent mark, pattern or design on the skin.
(2)Tattooing also includes any process that penetrates the skin and inserts into it colour pigments to make a semipermanent mark, pattern or design on the skin including, for example—
(a)the process known as cosmetic tattooing; or
(b)the process for applying semipermanent make-up.
Part 2 Obligations relating to personal appearance services
Division 1 Obligations to minimise infection risks for personal appearance services
19Obligation 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.
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.
(3)Division 4 provides for defences relating to this section.
20How an obligation to minimise an infection risk may be discharged if there is a regulation or infection control guideline
(1)If a regulation prescribes a way of minimising an infection risk, a proprietor or operator may discharge the proprietor’s or operator’s obligation relating to the risk only by following the prescribed way.
(2)Subject to subsection (1), if infection control guidelines made by the Minister state a way of minimising an infection risk, a business proprietor or operator may discharge the proprietor’s or operator’s obligation to minimise the risk only by—
(a)adopting and following the stated way; or
(b)adopting and following another way that minimises the infection risk.
21How an obligation to minimise an infection risk may be discharged if there is no regulation or infection control guideline
(1)This section applies if there is no regulation or infection control guideline prescribing or stating a way to discharge a business proprietor’s or operator’s obligation to minimise an infection risk.
(2)The proprietor or operator may choose an appropriate way to discharge the proprietor’s or operator’s obligation to minimise the risk.
(3)However, the proprietor or operator discharges the proprietor’s or operator’s obligation to minimise the risk only if the proprietor or operator takes all reasonable precautions and care to minimise the risk.
Division 2 Further obligations for higher risk personal appearance services
22Licence required for business providing higher risk personal appearance services
A person must not carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services unless the person holds a licence authorising the person to carry on the business.
23Premises at which higher risk personal appearance services may be provided
A licensee must not provide higher risk personal appearance services from premises unless the premises are stated on the licensee’s licence.
24Particular person must hold infection control qualification
A person must not personally provide a higher risk personal appearance service unless the person holds an infection control qualification.
25Business proprietor must ensure particular operator holds an infection control qualification
A business proprietor must ensure an operator employed or otherwise engaged by the proprietor does not provide a higher risk personal appearance service to a client of the proprietor unless the operator holds an infection control qualification.
Division 3 Obligations for non-higher risk personal appearance services
26Business proprietor must notify commencement of business
(1)Subsection (2) applies if a business proprietor starts carrying on business providing non-higher risk personal appearance services in a local government area.
(2)If required to do so under a local law of the local government for the local government area, the business proprietor must give notice, as required by this section, to the local government that the proprietor has started carrying on business.
(3)Notice must be given to the local government within 30 days of starting to carrying on business.
(4)The notice must state the following particulars—
(a)the business proprietor’s name and address;
(b)the type of business and the date the business proprietor started carrying on business;
(c)for fixed premises, the address of the premises;
(d)for mobile premises, a description of the premises that includes the registration number if the premises are a vehicle that is required to be registered.
(5)A local government must not charge a fee for a notice given under this section.
address means a place where the business proprietor resides or carries on business.
27Defences for div 1
(a)there is a proceeding against a person for an offence against section 19 relating to an infection risk; and
(b)there is an infection control guideline in force stating a way of minimising the infection risk; and
(c)the prosecution has proved that the person has not adopted or followed the stated way.
(2)In the proceeding against the person, it is a defence for the person to prove the person, under section 20(2)(b), adopted and followed another way that minimised the infection risk.
(3)Also, in a proceeding against a person for an offence against section 19—
(a)it is a defence for the person to prove that the commission of the offence was due to causes over which the person had no control; and
(b)the Criminal Code, sections 23 and 24, do not apply.
(4)In this section, a reference to an infection control guideline is a reference to the guideline as in force at the time of the alleged offence.
Part 3 Infection control guidelines
28Minister may make infection control guidelines
(1)The Minister may make guidelines (infection control guidelines) stating ways to minimise infection risks.
(2)An infection control guideline has no effect unless the Minister notifies the making of the guideline.
(3)The chief executive must keep a copy of each infection control guideline and any document applied, adopted or incorporated by the guidelines available for inspection, without charge, during normal business hours at the part of the department that deals with infection control.
(4)The chief executive must, if asked, state where a copy of an infection control guideline may be obtained.
(5)A notice mentioned in subsection (2) is subordinate legislation.
29Use of infection control guideline in a proceeding
In a proceeding under this Act a document purporting to be an infection control guideline is admissible as evidence of the guideline if—
(a)the proceeding relates to a contravention of an obligation imposed on a person under section 19; and
(b)it is claimed that the person contravened the obligation by failing to minimise an infection risk; and
(c)the infection control guideline is about minimising the infection risk.
Part 4 Licences to carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services
Division 1 Applications for and issue of licences
30Application for licence
(1)A person may apply for a licence to carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services.
(a)if the services are to be provided from fixed premises—the local government for the area in which the premises are located; or
(b)if the services are to be provided from mobile premises—any local government.
(3)An application may be made under subsection (2)(b) even though services—
(a)are to be, or may be, provided in another local government area; and
(b)are not to be, or may not be, provided in the local government area of the local government to which the application is made.
(4)The application must comply with section 58.
31Single licence may cover 2 or more premises
Subject to section 30, if the person proposes to carry on business from 2 or more premises, the person may apply to a local government for a single licence to cover all the premises.
32What the application must state
(1)The application must state the following—
(a)the name and address of the applicant or, if the applicant is a corporation, the corporation’s registered office under the Corporations Act and the names of its directors;
(b)for fixed premises, the address of the premises;
(c)for mobile premises—
(i)a description of the premises that includes the registration number if the premises are a vehicle that is required to be registered; and
(ii)an address, in the local government area of the local government to which the application is made, at which the premises may be inspected for deciding the application;
(d)an address for service of documents;
(e)the details, required in the approved form for the application, to enable the local government to decide whether—
(i)the applicant is a suitable person to hold a licence; and
(ii)the premises at which higher risk personal appearance services are to be provided are suitable for providing the services.
address for service means a place where the applicant resides or intends to carry on business.
33Consideration of application for licence
The local government must consider the application and either grant, or refuse to grant, the application.
34Criteria for granting application for licence
The local government may grant the application for a licence only if the local government is satisfied—
(b)the premises at which the higher risk personal appearance services are to be provided are suitable for providing the services.
35Suitability of person to hold licence
(1)In deciding whether a person is a suitable person to hold a licence, the local government may have regard to the following matters—
(a)whether the person, or if the person is a corporation, an executive officer of the corporation, has a conviction for a relevant offence, other than a spent conviction;
(b)whether the person, or if the person is a corporation, an executive officer of the corporation—
(i)held a licence under this division, or a licence or registration under a corresponding law, that was suspended or cancelled; or
(ii)has been refused a licence under this division or a licence or registration under a corresponding law; or
(iii)has had an application for the registration of an establishment refused under the Health Regulation 1996, part 15; or
(iv)has had the registration of an establishment suspended or cancelled under the Health Regulation 1996, part 15;
(c)anything else relevant to the person’s ability to conduct a business providing higher risk personal appearance services in a way that minimises infection risks.
Health Regulation 1996, part 15 means the Health Regulation 1996, part 15 as in force before the commencement of this Act.
(a)an indictable offence, other than an indictable offence that is taken to be a simple offence under the Criminal Code, section 659; or
(b)an offence against this Act; or
(c)an offence against a corresponding law; or
(d)an offence against the Health Act 1937 or a law of another State or the Commonwealth that provides for the same matter as that Act or a provision of that Act; or
(e)an offence, relating to the provision of higher risk personal appearance services, against a law applying, or that applied, in the State, the Commonwealth, another State or a foreign country.
36Suitability of premises at which higher risk personal appearance services are to be provided
In deciding whether premises at which higher risk personal appearance services are to be provided are suitable for providing the services, the local government may have regard to all the following matters—
(a)for fixed premises—
(i)whether a certificate of classification under the Building Act 1975 is in force for the premises; and
(ii)whether the premises comply with the Queensland Development Code, part MP 5.2;
(b)for mobile premises, whether the premises would comply with the Queensland Development Code, part MP 5.2 to the extent the part could reasonably apply to mobile premises if mobile premises were a place of business under that part;
(c)whether cleaning and waste disposal equipment in the premises will enable safe infection control practices;
(d)if equipment used in providing the higher risk personal appearance services is to be sterilised in the premises, whether the sterilising equipment will enable safe infection control practices;
(e)if equipment used in providing the higher risk personal appearance services is not to be sterilised in the premises, whether appropriate arrangements have been made to have the equipment sterilised at another place.
s 36 amd 2011 No. 41s 65
37Inquiries into application for licence
(1)Before deciding the application, the local government—
(a)may make inquiries to decide the suitability of—
(i)the applicant to hold a licence; and
(ii)the premises for providing higher risk personal appearance services; and
(b)may, by notice given to the applicant, require the applicant to give the local government within the reasonable time of at least 40 days stated in the notice, further information or a document the local government reasonably requires to decide the application.
(2)The applicant is taken to have withdrawn the application if, within the stated time, the applicant does not comply with a requirement under subsection (1)(b).
(3)A notice under subsection (1)(b) must be given to the applicant within 40 days after the local government receives the application.
(4)The information or document under subsection (1)(b) must, if the notice requires, be verified by a statutory declaration.
38Decision on application for licence
(1)If the local government decides to grant the application, the local government must—
(a)issue the licence to the applicant; and
(b)advise the applicant where a copy of the infection control guidelines may be obtained.
(2)If the local government decides to impose conditions on the licence, the local government must immediately give the applicant an information notice for the decision.
(3)If the local government decides to refuse to grant the application, the local government must immediately give the applicant an information notice for the decision.
39Failure to decide application for licence
(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3), if the local government fails to decide the application within 40 days after its receipt, the failure is taken to be a decision by the local government to refuse to grant the application.
(b)the local government has under section 37(1)(b), required the applicant to give the local government further information or a document.
(3)The local government is taken to have refused to grant the application if the local government does not decide the application within 40 days after the local government receives the further information or document.
(4)If the application is refused under this section, the applicant is entitled to be given an information notice by the local government for the decision.
40Term of licence
(1)A licence becomes effective on the day of its issue or renewal and ends either—
(a)3 years after that day; or
(b)on the earlier day stated in the licence.
(2)The earlier day may be decided by the local government.
41Conditions of licence
(a)the licensee must comply with this Act;
(b)the licensee must ensure that—
(i)the licensee’s licence, or a copy of the licence, is displayed at each of the licensee’s premises so that it is easily visible to a person as the person enters the premises; and
(ii)a copy of the infection control guidelines are kept at each premises at which the licensee carries on business; and
(iii)each of the licensee’s fixed premises comply with the Queensland Development Code, part MP 5.2; and
(iv)each of the licensee’s mobile premises comply with the Queensland Development Code, part MP 5.2 to the extent the part could reasonably apply to mobile premises if mobile premises were a place of business under that part; and
(v)the fixtures, fittings and equipment in the licensee’s premises are maintained in good repair and operational order;
Sterilising units must be regularly maintained.
(c)other reasonable conditions the local government considers appropriate to give effect to this Act and that are stated in the licence.
(2)Conditions may be imposed under subsection (1)(c)—
(a)when a licence is issued, renewed, amended or transferred; or
(b)at another time if the local government considers this is necessary to minimise the infection risk associated with the provision of higher risk personal appearance services under the licensee’s licence.
(3)If the local government decides to impose conditions on the licence under subsection (2)(b), the local government must immediately give the licensee an information notice for the decision.
s 41 amd 2011 No. 41s 66
42Licensee must comply with licence conditions
43Form of licence
(1)A licence must be in the approved form and must state the following particulars—
(a)the licensee’s name and address for service of documents;
(b)for fixed premises, the address of the premises in the local government area of the local government that issues the licence;
(c)for mobile premises, a description of the premises that includes the registration number if the premises are a vehicle that is required to be registered;
(d)the day the licence becomes effective;
(e)the term of the licence, including the day the licence expires;
(f)the licence number;
(g)the licence conditions.
address for service means a place where the licensee resides or carries on business.
Division 2 Renewal of licences
44Applications for renewal of licence
(1)A licensee may apply to the local government that issued a licence for the renewal of the licence.
(2)The application must be made at least 1 month before the licence ends.
(3)The application must comply with section 58.
(4)The local government must consider the application and renew, or refuse to renew, the licence.
(5)In deciding whether to grant the application, the local government may have regard to—
(a)the matters to which the local government may have regard in deciding whether an applicant for a licence is a suitable person to hold the licence and whether the premises are suitable for providing higher risk personal appearance services; and
Sections 35 and 36 state the matters.
(b)the results of inspections to monitor compliance with this Act during the current term of the licence.
(6)If the local government decides to refuse to renew the licence, the local government must immediately give the licensee an information notice for the decision.
(7)If the local government decides to impose conditions on the licence, the local government must immediately give the licensee an information notice for the decision.
(8)A licence may be renewed by—
45Inquiries into application for renewal of licence
(1)Before deciding the application, the local government may, by notice given to the licensee, require the licensee to give the local government, within a reasonable period of at least 40 days stated in the notice, further information or a document the local government reasonably requires to decide the application.
(2)The licensee is taken to have withdrawn the application if, within the stated period, the licensee does not comply with the requirement.
46Licence taken to be in force while application for renewal is considered
(1)If an application is made under section 44, the licensee’s licence is taken to continue in force from the day that it would, apart from this section, have ended until the application is decided under section 44 or taken to have been withdrawn under section 45(2).
(2)However, if the application is refused, the licence continues in force until the information notice for the decision is given to the licensee.
Division 3 Amendment of licences
47Application for amendment of licence
(1)A licensee may apply to the local government that issued a licence for an amendment of the licence.
(2)The application must comply with section 58.
(3)The local government must consider the application and amend, or refuse to amend, the licence.
(4)Without limiting subsection (1), the local government may amend a licence by changing the location of the premises, or adding additional premises, from which the licensee proposes to carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services.
(5)If the amendment relates to the premises covered by the licence, the local government may amend the licence only if the local government is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the premises comply with the requirements of this Act.
(6)If the local government decides to refuse to amend the licence, the local government must immediately give the licensee an information notice for the decision.
(7)If the local government decides to impose conditions on the amended licence, the local government must immediately give the licensee an information notice for the decision.
(8)A licence may be amended by—
48Inquiries into application for amendment
Division 4 Transfer of licences
49Application for transfer of licence
(1)A licensee may apply to the local government that issued a licence for the transfer of the licence.
(3)The local government must consider the application and either grant or refuse to grant the application.
(4)The local government may grant the application only if the local government is satisfied—
(a)the proposed transferee is a suitable person to hold a licence; and
(5)In deciding whether to grant the application, the local government may, in relation to the proposed transferee, have regard to the matters to which the local government may have regard in deciding whether a person is a suitable person to hold a licence and whether the premises are suitable for providing higher risk personal appearance services.
(6)If the local government decides to refuse to transfer the licence, the local government must immediately give the licensee an information notice for the decision.
(7)If the local government decides to impose conditions on the transferred licence, the local government must immediately give the transferee an information notice for the decision.
(8)A licence may be transferred by—
(a)endorsing the existing licence with details of the transfer; or
(b)cancelling the existing licence and issuing another licence to the transferee.
50Inquiries into application for transfer of licence
Division 5 Suspension or cancellation of licences
51Grounds for suspension or cancellation
(a)the licensee is not, or is no longer, a suitable person to hold the licence;
(2)For forming a belief that the ground mentioned in subsection (1)(a) exists, the local government may have regard to the matters to which the local government may have regard in deciding whether a proposed licensee is a suitable person to hold the licence.
Section 35 states the matters.
52Show cause notice
(1)This section applies if the local government that issued a licence believes a ground exists to suspend or cancel the licence, and—
(a)the licensee has not been given, and it is not intended to give the licensee, a remedial notice about a matter to which the ground relates; or
(b)the licensee has been given a remedial notice about a matter to which the ground relates and the licensee has failed, without a reasonable excuse, to comply with the notice.
(2)The local government must give the licensee a notice under this section (a show cause notice).
(a)the action (the proposed action) the local government proposes taking under this division;
(e)an invitation to the licensee to show within a stated period (the show cause period) why the proposed action should not be taken.
(4)The show cause period must be a period ending at least 21 days after the show cause notice is given to the licensee.
53Representations about show cause notices
(1)The licensee may make written representations about the show cause notice to the local government in the show cause period.
(2)The local government must consider all representations (the accepted representations) made under subsection (1).
54Ending show cause process without further action
(1)This section applies if, after considering the accepted representations for the show cause notice, the local government no longer believes a ground exists to suspend or cancel the licence.
(2)The local government must not take any further action about the show cause notice.
(3)The local government must give the licensee a notice that no further action is to be taken about the show cause notice.
55Suspension or cancellation
(1)This section applies if, after considering the accepted representations for the show cause notice, the local government—
(3)The local government may—
(4)The local government must immediately give an information notice for the decision to the licensee.
(a)the day the information notice is given to the licensee;
56Immediate suspension of licence
(1)The local government may suspend a licence immediately if the local government believes—
(b)it is necessary to suspend the licence immediately because there is an immediate and serious risk of infection to the licensee’s clients.
(a)must be effected by an information notice given by the local government to the licensee about the decision to suspend the licensee’s licence together with a show cause notice; and
(i)the local government cancels the remaining period of the suspension;
(iii)40 days have passed since the notices were given to the licensee.
(i)the local government cancels the remaining period of the suspension; or
(iii)40 days have passed since the notices mentioned in subsection (2)(a) were given to the licensee; and
(b)the licensee has returned the licence to the local government under section 57.
(4)The local government must, as soon as practicable, give the licence to the licensee.
57Return of cancelled or suspended licence to local government
(1)This section applies if the local government has cancelled or suspended a licence and given an information notice for the decision to the licensee.
(2)The licensee must return the licence to the local government within 7 days after receiving the information notice, unless the licensee has a reasonable excuse.
Division 6 Other provisions about licences
58Applications
(a)an application for a licence under section 30;
(b)an application for the renewal of a licence under section 44;
(c)an application for an amendment of a licence under section 47;
(d)an application for the transfer of a licence under section 49.
(c)be accompanied by the fee for the application.
59Licence issued to more than 1 person
If a licence is issued jointly to more than 1 person, a reference in this Act to the licensee is a reference to each of the persons.
60Surrender of licence
(1)A licensee may surrender the licence by notice given to the local government that issued the licence.
(2)The licence must accompany the notice.
61Application for replacement of licence
(1)A licensee may apply for replacement of the licensee’s licence if the licence has been damaged, destroyed, lost or stolen.
(a)be made to the local government that issued the licence; and
62Decision about application for replacement of licence
(1)The local government must consider the application and either grant, or refuse to grant, the application.
(2)The local government must grant the application if the local government is satisfied the licence has been destroyed, lost or stolen, or damaged in a way to require its replacement.
(3)If the local government decides to grant the application, the local government must, as soon as practicable, issue another licence to the applicant to replace the damaged, destroyed, lost or stolen licence.
(4)If the local government decides to refuse to grant the application, the local government must immediately give the applicant an information notice for the decision.
63False or misleading statements
A person must not, for an application made under this part, state anything the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
64False or misleading documents
(1)A person must not, for an application made under this part, give a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
(a)tells the local government, to the best of the person’s ability, how it is false or misleading; and
(b)if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information to the local government.
Part 5 Mobile higher risk personal appearance services
65Notification of intention to provide services from mobile premises
(1)This section applies if a licensee intends to provide higher risk personal appearance services from mobile premises to which the licence relates in the local government area of a second local government.
(2)At least 7 days before the licensee provides the higher risk personal appearance services, the licensee must notify the second local government of the following—
(a)the dates the licensee intends to provide higher risk personal appearance services in the second local government area;
(b)the places at which the higher risk personal appearance services are intended to be provided;
(c)the licensee’s licence details;
(d)details of the infection control qualification of the operator who will provide the higher risk personal appearance services;
(e)other information reasonably required by the second local government to ensure the licensee and operator will take reasonable precautions and care to minimise the risk of infection in providing the higher risk personal appearance services.
(3)However, notification under subsection (2) may be a period that is less than 7 days if the second local government agrees to the lesser period.
(4)Notification under subsection (2) must be by—
(a)phone; or
(b)letter, fax, email or other means of written communication.
(5)If the licensee notifies the second local government by phone, the licensee must immediately confirm the details provided by letter, fax, email or other means of written communication.
66Obligations of licensee while in second local government area
For the period the licensee provides higher risk personal appearance services from mobile premises in a second local government area the licensee has the obligations under the licensee’s licence.
67Action that may be taken by second local government
(1)This section applies for the period the licensee provides higher risk personal appearance services from mobile premises in a second local government area.
(2)The second local government has the same powers as the first local government would have had if the higher risk personal appearance services were being provided in the first local government area.
(3)However, the second local government may not cancel, suspend, impose conditions on, or take any other action in relation to the licensee’s licence.
68Notification to first local government
(a)a licensee or an operator employed or otherwise engaged by the licensee has provided higher risk personal appearance services from mobile premises in a second local government area; and
(b)the second local government considers that the licensee or operator has done or omitted to do something that, if done or omitted to be done in the first local government area, would be a contravention of the conditions of the licensee’s licence.
(2)The second local government may advise the first local government of the thing done or omitted to be done.
69Action that may be taken by first local government
(1)This section applies if the second local government has advised the first local government of a thing done or omitted to be done by the licensee or an operator employed or otherwise engaged by the licensee while in the second local government area.
(2)The first local government may take action in relation to the thing done or omitted to be done by the licensee or operator as if the thing had been done or omitted to be done in the first local government area.
70Appointment and qualifications
(1)A local government may appoint any of the following persons as authorised persons for the local government and its area—
(a)employees of the local government;
(b)if another local government consents—employees of the other local government;
(c)other persons under contract to the local government.
(2)However, a local government may appoint a person as an authorised person only if the local government is satisfied the person is qualified for appointment because the person has the necessary expertise or experience to be an authorised person.
71Powers of authorised person limited to local government area
An authorised person may exercise a power under this Act only in relation to the local government and its area for which the person is appointed.
72Appointment conditions and limit on powers
(b)a signed notice given to the authorised person.
(2)The instrument of appointment or a signed notice given to the authorised person may limit the authorised person’s powers under this Act.
signed notice means a notice signed by the local government.
73Functions of authorised persons
An authorised person has the following functions relating to the provision of personal appearance services—
(a)to enforce this Act;
(b)to monitor compliance with this Act by inspecting businesses providing personal appearance services;
(c)to help achieve the purpose of this Act by providing advice and information on how the purpose may be achieved.
74Issue of identity cards
(1)The local government must issue an identity card to each authorised person.
(a)contain a copy of a recent photo of the authorised person; and
75Production or display of identity card
(1)In exercising a power under this Act in relation to a person, an authorised person must—
(3)For subsection (1), an authorised person does not exercise a power in relation to a person only because the authorised person has entered a place as mentioned in section 79(1)(b) or (2).
76When authorised person ceases to hold office
(c)the authorised person’s resignation under section 77 takes effect.
77Resignation
An authorised person may resign by notice to the local government.
78Return of identity card
A person who ceases to be an authorised person must return the person’s identity card to the local government within 21 days after ceasing to be an authorised person, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
79Power to enter places
(d)it is premises at which a business proprietor carries on business providing personal appearance services and is—
(3)For subsection (1)(d), premises does not include a part of the place where a person resides.
80Entry with consent
(1)This section applies if an authorised person intends to ask the occupier of a place to consent to the authorised person or another authorised person entering the place.
(3)If the consent is given, the authorised person may ask the occupier to sign an acknowledgment of the consent.
(5)If the occupier signs an acknowledgment, the authorised person must immediately give a copy to the occupier.
81Application for warrant
82Issue of warrant
83Special warrants
(4)After issuing the special warrant, the magistrate must immediately fax a copy (facsimile warrant) to the authorised person if it is reasonably practicable to fax the copy.
(6)The facsimile warrant, or the warrant form properly completed by the authorised person, authorises the entry and the exercise of the other powers stated in the warrant issued.
84Warrants—procedure before entry
(b)give the person a copy of the warrant or, if the entry is authorised by a facsimile warrant or warrant form mentioned in section 83(6), a copy of the facsimile warrant or warrant form;
85Stopping motor vehicle
(1)This section applies if an authorised person suspects on reasonable grounds, or is aware, that a thing in or on a motor vehicle may provide evidence of the commission of an offence against this Act.
(2)For the purpose of exercising the powers of an authorised person under this division, an authorised person may—
(b)whether or not the motor vehicle is moving—ask or signal the person in control of the motor vehicle to bring the motor vehicle to a convenient place within a reasonable distance to allow the authorised person to exercise the authorised person’s powers under this division.
(3)When asking or signalling the person in control of a moving vehicle to stop the vehicle or bring it to a convenient place, the authorised person must clearly identify himself or herself as an authorised person exercising the authorised person’s powers under this Act.
1If the authorised person is in a moving motor vehicle, he or she may use a loud hailer to identify himself or herself as an authorised person exercising powers under this Act.
2If the authorised person is standing at the side of the road, he or she may use a sign to identify himself or herself as an authorised person exercising powers under this Act.
(4)Despite section 75, for the purpose of exercising a power under subsection (2)(a), the authorised person must—
(5)The person must comply with the authorised person’s request or signal, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(6)It is a reasonable excuse for the person not to obey the request or signal if—
(a)in a case to which subsection (3) applies, the authorised person has not complied with the subsection; or
(b)to immediately obey the request or signal would have endangered the person or someone else or caused loss or damage to property, and the person obeys the request or signal as soon as it is practicable to obey it.
(7)If the motor vehicle is stopped, the authorised person may direct the person—
(a)not to move the motor vehicle until the authorised person has exercised the authorised person’s powers under this division; or
(b)to move the motor vehicle to, and keep it at, a stated reasonable place to allow the authorised person to exercise the authorised person’s powers under this division.
(8)When giving the direction, the authorised person must warn the person it is an offence not to comply with the direction, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(9)The person must comply with the authorised person’s direction, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty for subsection (9)—50 penalty units.
86General powers after entering places
(2)However, if an authorised person enters a place to get the occupier’s consent to enter a place, this section applies to the authorised person only if the consent is given or the entry is otherwise authorised.
(3)For monitoring and enforcing compliance with this Act, the authorised person may—
(e)take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the authorised person reasonably requires for exercising a power under this division; or
(g)require the occupier of the place, or a person at the place, to give the authorised person information to help the authorised person find out whether this Act is being complied with.
87Failure to help authorised person
(1)A person required to give reasonable help under section 86(3)(f) must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(2)If a requirement under section 86(3)(f) relates to a document, it is a reasonable excuse for the person not to comply with the requirement that complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.
88Failure to give information
(1)A person of whom a requirement is made under section 86(3)(g) must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Also, a person must not state anything the person knows to be false or misleading in a material particular—see section 115 (False or misleading statements).
89Seizing evidence at a place that may be entered without consent or warrant
An authorised person who enters a place under this division without the consent of the occupier and without a warrant, may seize a thing at the place only if the authorised person reasonably believes the thing is evidence of an offence against this Act.
90Seizing evidence at a place that may only be entered with consent or warrant
(4)The authorised person also may seize anything else at the place if the authorised person reasonably believes—
91Securing seized things
(b)leave the thing at the place of seizure, but take reasonable action to restrict access to it.
92Tampering with seized things
93Powers to support seizure
(4)A person of whom the requirement is made under subsection (1) or (3) must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(5)Subject to section 114, the cost of complying with subsection (4) must be borne by the person.
94Authorised person may require thing’s return
(1)If an authorised person has required a person to take a thing to a stated place by a stated reasonable time under section 93 the authorised person may require the person to return the thing to the place from which it was taken.
(2)A person of whom the requirement is made under subsection (1) must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(3)Subject to section 114, the cost of complying with subsection (2) must be borne by the person.
95Receipts for seized things
96Forfeiture of seized things
(1)A seized thing is forfeited to the local government for whom the authorised person was acting if the authorised person who seized the thing—
97Return of seized things
(1)If a thing has been seized but not forfeited, the authorised person must return it to its owner—
(b)if a proceeding for an offence involving the thing is started within 6 months, at the end of the proceeding and any appeal from the proceeding.
(2)However, unless the thing has been forfeited, the authorised person must immediately return a thing seized as evidence to its owner if the authorised person stops being satisfied its continued retention as evidence is necessary.
98Access to seized things
(1)Until a thing that has been seized is forfeited or returned, an authorised person must allow its owner to inspect it and, if it is a document, to copy it.
99Power to require name and address
(b)an authorised person finds a person in circumstances that lead, or has information that leads, the authorised person reasonably to suspect the person has just committed an offence against this Act.
(4)The authorised person may require the person to give the authorised person evidence of the correctness of the stated name or residential address if the authorised person reasonably suspects the stated name or address to be false.
(5)A requirement under subsection (2) or (4) is a personal details requirement.
100Failure to give name or address
101Power to require production of documents
(3)If the authorised person copies the document, or an entry in the document, the authorised person may require the person responsible for keeping the document to certify the copy as a true copy of the document or entry.
(6)A requirement under subsection (1) is a document production requirement.
102Failure to produce document
(2)It is not a reasonable excuse for an individual not to comply with a document production requirement that complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the individual.
103Failure to certify copy of document
104Power to require information
(2)The authorised person may, by notice given to the person, require the person to give information about the offence to the authorised person at a stated reasonable time and place.
Division 3 Monitoring compliance
105Inspections to monitor compliance
(1)Local governments may monitor compliance with this Act by having authorised persons inspect places of business in the local governments’ areas.
(2)Local governments may recover their monitoring costs by charging business proprietors reasonable fees for inspections carried out.
(3)This division states the inspections for which local governments may charge fees.
(4)Nothing in this division limits the number of inspections an authorised person may conduct at a place of business.
106Inspection fees for businesses providing higher risk personal appearance services
(1)This section applies if a business proprietor carries on a business providing higher risk personal appearance services at the proprietor’s premises.
(2)Subsection (3) applies if the premises are fixed premises to which a licence relates.
(3)The local government for an area in which the premises are located may charge the proprietor the following fees for inspections at the proprietor’s premises—
(a)if the proprietor carries on business at 1 premises only—1 inspection fee in any 12 month period;
(b)if the proprietor carries on business at 2 or more premises—1 inspection fee for each premises in any 12 month period.
(4)Subsection (5) applies if the premises are mobile premises to which a licence relates.
(5)A local government for the area in which the higher risk personal appearance services are provided may charge the proprietor the following fees for inspections at the proprietor’s premises—
If a business proprietor provides higher risk personal appearance services from the same mobile premises in 2 local government areas, each of the local governments may charge a fee for inspecting the premises.
107Inspection fees if non-higher risk personal appearance services provided only at proprietor’s fixed premises
(1)This section applies if a business proprietor carries on a business providing non-higher risk personal appearance services only at the proprietor’s fixed premises.
(2)The local government for the area in which the premises are located may charge the proprietor the following fees for inspections at the proprietor’s premises—
A business proprietor provides hairdressing services at 3 of the proprietor’s fixed premises. Three inspection fees may be charged if each of the premises are inspected in a 12 month period.
108Inspection fees if non-higher risk personal appearance services provided only at places of business other than proprietor’s fixed premises
(1)This section applies if a business proprietor provides non-higher risk personal appearance services only at places of business that are not the proprietor’s fixed premises.
(2)A local government for an area in which any of the places of business are located may charge the proprietor 1 inspection fee in any 12 month period.
(3)However, if a local government (the first local government) has charged a business proprietor an inspection fee under this section, another local government may not charge the proprietor an inspection fee under this section within 12 months of the fee being charged by the first local government.
109Inspection fees if non-higher risk personal appearance services provided both at proprietor’s fixed premises and at places of business other than the proprietor’s fixed premises
(1)This section applies if a business proprietor carries on a business providing non-higher risk personal appearance services at both—
(a)the proprietor’s fixed premises; and
(b)places of business that are not the proprietor’s fixed premises.
(2)The proprietor may be charged only the inspection fees under section 107.
A person carries on a hairdressing business from 2 fixed premises and also provides hairdressing services in clients’ homes in 2 local government areas. The only fees that may be charged are for inspecting the fixed premises.
110Inspection fee after remedial notice
(1)Subsection (2) applies if an authorised person has given a remedial notice to a business proprietor.
(2)The local government for whom the authorised person was acting may charge the business proprietor 1 inspection fee to check if the remedial notice has been complied with.
(3)An inspection fee under this section is in addition to the inspection fees that may be charged under sections 106 to 109.
111Remedial notice
(a)a business proprietor, or an operator employed or otherwise engaged by the proprietor—
(b)a matter relating to the contravention is capable of being remedied; and
(c)it is appropriate to give the business proprietor an opportunity to remedy the matter; and
(d)for a business proprietor who is a licensee, a local government has not given a show cause notice to the business proprietor under section 52 relating to the contravention.
(2)The authorised person may give the business proprietor a notice (a remedial notice) requiring the business proprietor to remedy the contravention or have the contravention remedied.
(3)The remedial notice must state the following—
(a)that the authorised person reasonably believes the business proprietor or operator—
(b)the provision the authorised person believes is being, or has been, contravened (the relevant provision);
(d)that the business proprietor must remedy the contravention or have the contravention remedied within a stated reasonable time;
(e)that it is an offence to fail to comply with the remedial notice unless the business proprietor has a reasonable excuse.
(4)The remedial notice may also state the steps that the authorised person reasonably believes are necessary to remedy the contravention, or avoid further contravention, of the relevant provision.
(5)The business proprietor must comply with the remedial notice unless the business proprietor has a reasonable excuse.
(a)if a contravention of the relevant provision is an offence—the maximum penalty for contravening the relevant provision;
(6)If it is an offence to contravene the relevant provision for which a remedial notice has been issued, the business proprietor can not be prosecuted for that offence unless the person fails to comply with the remedial notice and does not have a reasonable excuse for the noncompliance.
(7)A local government may prosecute a business proprietor or operator for the contravention of a relevant provision without an authorised person first issuing a remedial notice for the contravention.
112Person may be prohibited from providing personal appearance service
(2)The court sentencing the person for the offence may, on its own initiative or the application of the prosecutor, make an order under subsection (3) or (5).
(3)The court may make an order, applying for a period decided by the court—
(a)prohibiting the person from providing, or carrying on or managing a business providing, a personal appearance service; or
(b)prohibiting the person from having a financial interest in a business providing a personal appearance service; or
(c)if the person is a corporation, prohibiting an executive officer of the corporation, who was in a position to influence the conduct of the corporation in relation to the offence, from managing a corporation that carries on a business providing a personal appearance service.
(4)For subsection (3)(c), a person manages a corporation if the person is a director, or is in any way concerned in or takes part in the management, of the corporation.
(5)Also, the court may make an order, applying for a period decided by the court—
(a)prohibiting the person from entering into commercial arrangements with a person who provides, or carries on or manages a business providing, a personal appearance service; or
(b)if the person is a corporation, prohibiting an executive officer of the corporation, who was in a position to influence the conduct of the corporation in relation to the offence, from entering into commercial arrangements with a person who provides, or carries on or manages a business providing, a personal appearance service.
(6)An order under subsection (3) or (5) may apply generally or be limited in its application by reference to specified conditions, exceptions or factors.
(7)A reference in subsection (5) to a person entering into commercial arrangements includes the entering into commercial arrangements on behalf of another person.
(8)A person must not contravene an order under subsection (3) or (5).
Maximum penalty for subsection (8)—500 penalty units.
113Notice of damage
(2)The authorised person must immediately give notice of particulars of the damage to the person who appears to the authorised person to be the owner of the property.
(3)If the authorised person believes the damage was caused by a latent defect in the property or circumstances beyond the authorised person’s or other person’s control, the authorised person may state the belief in the notice.
114Compensation
(1)If a person incurs loss or expense because of the exercise or purported exercise of a power under any of the following subdivisions of division 2 by or for a local government, the person may claim compensation from the local government—
115False or misleading statements
A person must not state anything to an authorised person the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
116False or misleading documents
(1)A person must not give an authorised person a document containing information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.
117Obstructing an authorised person
118Impersonating authorised person
pt 7 hdg amd 2009 No. 24s 1231
119Review process starts with internal review
(1)Subject to this division, a person who is given, or is entitled to be given, an information notice for a decision under part 4 (the original decision) may have the decision reviewed under this part.
(2)The review must be, in the first instance, by way of an application for internal review under section 120.
s 119 amd 2009 No. 24s 1232
120Application for review to be made to the local government
The person may apply to the local government that gave, or should have given, the person the information notice for a review of the original decision.
121Applying for review
(2)The local government may, at any time, extend the time for applying for the review.
122Review decision
(1)After reviewing the original decision, the local government must make a further decision (the review decision) to—
(2)The local government must immediately give the applicant notice of the review decision.
(3)If the review decision is not the decision sought by the applicant, the notice must be a QCAT information notice.
(4)If the local government does not give the notice mentioned in subsection (2) within 40 days after the application is made, the local government is taken to have made a review decision confirming the original decision on the 40th day after the application is made.
s 122 amd 2009 No. 24s 1233
123Stay of operation of original decision
(4)The period of the stay must not extend past the time when the local government that made the original decision makes a review decision about the original decision and any later period QCAT allows the applicant to enable the applicant to apply for a review of the review decision.
s 123 prev s 123 om 2009 No. 24s 1234
pres s 123 ins 2009 No. 48s 176
div hdg sub 2009 No. 24s 1235
124Who may apply for external review
s 124 amd 2009 No. 24s 1236
s 125 om 2009 No. 24s 1237
s 126 om 2009 No. 24s 1237
s 127 om 2009 No. 24s 1237
s 128 om 2009 No. 24s 1237
s 129 om 2009 No. 24s 1237
s 130 om 2009 No. 24s 1237
Part 8 Legal proceedings
131Application of part
(b)a chief executive officer’s appointment;
(c)an authorised person’s appointment;
(d)the authority of the chief executive, a local government, a chief executive officer or an authorised person to do anything under this Act.
A signature purporting to be the signature of the chief executive, a chief executive officer or an authorised person is evidence of the signature it purports to be.
134Evidentiary provisions
(1)A certificate purporting to be signed by the chief executive or a chief executive officer and stating any of the following matters is evidence of the matter—
(iv)a record, or an extract from a record;
(d)on a stated day, or during a stated period, a stated person was or was not a licensee;
(g)on a stated day, or during a stated period, an appointment as an authorised person was, or was not, in force for a stated person;
(i)on a stated day, a stated requirement was made of a stated person;
135Summary offences
136Allegations of false or misleading information or document
137Recovery of costs of investigation
(b)a local government applies to the court for an order against the person for the payment of the costs the local government has incurred in taking a thing or doing something else during the investigation of the offence; and
(c)the court finds the local government has reasonably incurred the costs.
(2)The court may order the person to pay the local government an amount equal to the costs if it is satisfied it would be just to make the order in the circumstances of the particular case.
138Application for order for payment of costs under s 137
(1)An application to a court under section 137 is, and any order made by the court on the application is a judgment, in the court’s civil jurisdiction.
139Forfeiture on conviction
(1)On conviction of a person for an offence against this Act, a court may order the forfeiture to a local government of—
140Dealing with forfeited thing
(1)On the forfeiture of a thing to a local government, the thing becomes the local government’s property and may be dealt with by the local government as the local government considers appropriate.
(2)Without limiting subsection (1), the local government may destroy the thing.
141Responsibility for acts or omissions of representative
142Liability of executive officer—particular offences committed by corporation
•section 19(2).
s 142 sub 2013 No. 51s 172
143Fines payable to local government
(a)a proceeding for an offence about a matter is taken by a local government; and
(b)a court imposes a fine for the offence.
(2)The fine must be paid to the local government.
144Service of documents
145Protecting officials from liability
(2)If subsection (1) prevents a civil liability attaching to an official, the liability attaches instead to—
(a)if the official is the chief executive officer of a local government, an authorised person appointed by a local government or acting under the direction of an authorised person appointed by a local government—the local government; or
(b)if paragraph (a) does not apply—the State.
(c)a chief executive officer; or
146Delegation by chief executive
(1)The chief executive may delegate the chief executive’s powers under this Act to the following appropriately qualified persons—
a person’s classification level in the department
s 146 amd 2011 No. 32s 332sch 1pt 2 (amd 2012 No. 9s 47)
A local government may approve forms for use under this Act.
(a)prescribe ways to minimise the risk of infection relating to personal appearance services; and
(b)set fees payable under this Act and the matters for which the fees are payable including fees for section 9(3)(b); and
(c)impose a penalty of not more than 20 penalty units for a contravention of a provision of a regulation.
149Definitions for pt 10
former regulation means the Health Regulation 1996 as in force before the commencement.
150Pending applications for licences under pt 5 of the former regulation
(1)This section applies to each of the following applications made under part 5 of the former regulation pending immediately before the commencement—
(b)an application for the renewal of a licence;
(c)an application for the transfer of a licence.
(2)The application lapses and the fee paid by the applicant to a local government for the application must be refunded in full to the applicant by the local government.
151Lapsing of licence held under pt 5 of former regulation
(1)This section applies if a person is the holder of a licence under part 5 of the former regulation immediately before the commencement.
(2)On the commencement the licence lapses.
152Action to cancel or suspend a licence under pt 5 of former regulation
(1)This section applies if a licence under part 5 of the former regulation lapses under section 151.
(2)A notice under the former regulation to show cause why a notice should not be given cancelling or suspending the licence also lapses.
153Pending application for registration of an establishment under pt 15 of the former regulation
(1)This section applies to an application for registration of an establishment (the premises) made under part 15 of the former regulation.
(2)The application is taken to be an application for a licence to carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services from the premises made under the relevant section of this Act if—
(a)the application is pending immediately before the commencement; and
(b)the services to be provided at the premises are higher risk personal appearance services.
(3)A local government—
(a)may assess the suitability of the applicant and the premises under this Act; and
(b)for that purpose may make inquiries and require further information or a document under section 37.
(4)However, if a regulation states that section 36(a)(ii) does not apply to an application to which this section applies made before a stated date, section 36(a)(ii) does not apply to an application made before the stated date.
(5)The stated date under subsection (4) must not be more than 1 year after the commencement.
(6)If the services to be provided at the premises are not higher risk personal appearance services—
(a)the application lapses; and
(b)the fee paid by the applicant to a local government for the application must be refunded in full to the applicant by the local government.
154Pending application for renewal of registration of an establishment under pt15 of the former regulation
(1)This section applies to an application for renewal of registration of an establishment (the premises) made under part 15 of the former regulation.
(2)The application is taken to be an application for renewal of a licence to carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services from the premises made under the relevant section of this Act if—
(b)the services being provided at the premises are higher risk personal appearance services.
(b)for that purpose may make inquiries and require further information or a document under section 45.
(6)If the services being provided at the premises are not higher risk personal appearance services—
155When single licence may be issued for applications under pt 15 of the former regulation
(1)This section applies if a local government has received applications for registration or renewal of registration of 2 or more establishments (the premises) to which sections 153(2) and 154(2) apply.
(2)The local government may issue a single licence to cover all the premises.
156Effect of registration of an establishment providing higher risk personal appearance services under pt 15 of the former regulation
(a)a person is the proprietor of an establishment (the premises) registered under part 15 of the former regulation immediately before the commencement; and
(b)services being provided at the premises are higher risk personal appearance services.
(2)On the commencement, the registration is taken to be a licence issued to the person to carry on business providing higher risk personal appearance services from the premises under this Act (a continued licence).
(3)Subject to this part, a continued licence remains in force for the remainder of the period of the registration under the former regulation.
(4)Subsection (2) applies to a registration under part 15 of the former regulation even if the registration was suspended at the commencement.
(5)However, the suspension is taken to continue as a suspension of the continued licence.
157Application of this Act to a continued licence
(1)This Act applies to a continued licence for the remainder of the period of registration under the former regulation.
(2)However, if a regulation states that section 41(1)(b)(iii) and (iv) does not apply to a continued licence until a stated date, section 41(1)(b)(iii) and (iv) does not apply to the licence until the date.
(3)The stated date under subsection (2) must not be more than 1 year after the commencement.
(4)For a continued licence, for the remainder of the period of the registration under the former regulation, a local government may not charge an inspection fee under part 6, division 3 for inspecting the premises to which the licence relates.
(5)Subsection (6) applies to an application for the renewal of a continued licence.
(6)If a regulation states that section 36(a)(ii) does not apply to an application for renewal made before a stated date, section 36(a)(ii) does not apply to an application made before the stated date.
(7)The stated date under subsection (6) must not be more than 1 year after the commencement.
158Lapsing of registration of establishment registered under pt 15 of the former regulation
(b)services being provided at the premises are not higher risk personal appearance services.
(2)The registration of the establishment lapses.
159Application of Act to certain licences relating to establishments previously registered
(i)the proprietor of an establishment (the premises)—
(A)registered under part 15 of the former regulation immediately before the commencement; or
(B)registered under part 15 of the former regulation before the commencement and for which an application for renewal is pending immediately before the commencement; or
(ii)an applicant for registration of an establishment (also the premises) made under part 15 of the former regulation pending immediately before the commencement; and
(b)services being provided, or to be provided, at the premises are higher risk personal appearance services; and
(c)a licence relating to the premises is subsequently issued under this Act.
(2)This Act applies to the licence mentioned in subsection (1)(c).
(3)However, if a regulation states that for a licence issued before a stated date, section 41(1)(b)(iii) and (iv) does not apply to the licence until a stated date, section 41(1)(b)(iii) and (iv) does not apply to the licence until the date.
(4)The stated date under subsection (3) must not be more than 1 year after the commencement.
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(1)A proceeding for an offence against a provision of the former regulation may be started or continued, and the provisions of the former regulation, and other provisions of the Health Act 1937, that are necessary or convenient to be used in relation to the proceeding continue to apply, as if this Act had not commenced.
s 161 exp 1 July 2005 (see s 161(3))
accepted representations see section 53(2).
approved form means a form approved by a local government under section 147.
authorised person means a person appointed to be an authorised person for this Act.
beauty therapy see section 11.
body piercing see section 12.
business proprietor means a person carrying on a business that provides personal appearance services.
business transaction means a transaction in which a service is provided for payment or other consideration.
client means an individual to whom a personal appearance service is provided as part of a business transaction.
commencement, for part 10, see section 149.
continued licence see section 156(2).
document certification requirement see section 101(5).
document production requirement see section 101(6).
facsimile warrant see section 83(4).
first local government, in relation to the provision of higher risk personal appearance services by a licensee from mobile premises, means the local government that issued the licence to carry on the business.
first local government area, in relation to a first local government, means the local government area of the first local government.
fixed premises, for a business providing personal appearance services, means a building or other structure, or part of a building or other structure, that has a permanent address.
former regulation, for part 10, see section 149.
hairdressing see section 13.
health-care facility means a place where a health service is provided.
sch 2 def health service amd 2006 No. 25 s 241 sch 3;
higher risk personal appearance service see section 14.
infection control guidelines see section 28(1).
infection control qualification means a certificate issued by a registered training organisation to an individual stating that the individual has achieved an infection control competency standard prescribed under a regulation.
infection risk see section 19(1)(a).
information notice, for a decision of a local government under part 4, is a written notice stating the following—
(d)how the person may have the decision reviewed;
(e)if the decision is that a licence be cancelled or suspended—a direction to the person to return the licence to the local government within 7 days after receiving the notice.
licence means a licence in force under part 4.
mobile premises, for a business providing personal appearance services, means premises that are a vehicle or are otherwise ordinarily moved from place to place.
motor vehicle means a vehicle propelled by a motor that forms part of the vehicle, and includes a trailer or caravan attached to the vehicle.
non-higher risk personal appearance service see section 15.
notice, other than a notice that is subordinate legislation, means signed written notice.
operator means an individual who personally provides personal appearance services to a client.
original decision see section 119(1).
personal appearance service see section 16.
personal details requirement see section 99(5).
place of business means a place where a personal appearance service is provided.
premises, other than for part 10, includes—
sch 2 def QCAT information notice ins 2009 No. 24 s 1238(2)
sch 2 def Queensland Development Code amd 2006 No. 36 s 101 sch; 1975 No. 11 s 283(3)(d) (amd 2006 No. 36 s 69)
sch 2 def registered training organisation amd 2006 No. 25 s 241 sch 4
sub 2012 Act No. 11 s 42 sch; 2014 No. 25 s 223 sch 1 pt 2
remedial notice see section 111(2).
review decision see section 122(1).
sch 2 def review notice om 2009 No. 24 s 1238(1)
second local government, in relation to the provision of higher risk personal appearance services by a licensee from mobile premises, means a local government other than the local government that issued the licence to carry on the business.
sch 2 def second local government amd 2011 No. 41 s 67
second local government area, in relation to a second local government, means the local government area of the second local government.
show cause notice see section 52(2).
show cause period see section 52(3)(e).
skin penetration see section 17.
tattooing see section 18.
vehicle includes a caravan or trailer or another type of transport that moves on wheels.