Debt Collectors (Field Agents and Collection Agents) Act 2014
sec.145Public warning statements
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sec.145 Public warning statements
The Minister or chief executive may make or issue a public statement identifying and giving warnings or information about any of the following— contraventions of a prescribed conduct provision that have resulted in a QCAT order and the persons who have committed the contraventions; business practices regulated under this Act that are unfair and the persons who engage in the unfair practices; the commission of offences against this Act and the persons who commit the offences. The statement may identify particular contraventions, business practices, offences and persons. The Minister or chief executive must not make or issue a statement under this section unless satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so. In this section— QCAT order means an order under section 116 . (sec.145-ssec.1) The Minister or chief executive may make or issue a public statement identifying and giving warnings or information about any of the following— contraventions of a prescribed conduct provision that have resulted in a QCAT order and the persons who have committed the contraventions; business practices regulated under this Act that are unfair and the persons who engage in the unfair practices; the commission of offences against this Act and the persons who commit the offences. (sec.145-ssec.2) The statement may identify particular contraventions, business practices, offences and persons. (sec.145-ssec.3) The Minister or chief executive must not make or issue a statement under this section unless satisfied that it is in the public interest to do so. (sec.145-ssec.4) In this section— QCAT order means an order under section 116 .
- (a) contraventions of a prescribed conduct provision that have resulted in a QCAT order and the persons who have committed the contraventions;
- (b) business practices regulated under this Act that are unfair and the persons who engage in the unfair practices;
- (c) the commission of offences against this Act and the persons who commit the offences.