Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The registrar may suspend a registration immediately if the registrar believes--
(a) a ground exists to suspend or cancel the registration; and
(b) it is necessary to suspend the registration immediately because there is an immediate and serious harm to the effectiveness of the adjudication of payment claims under this Act.
(2) The suspension--
(a) must be effected by an information notice for the decision given by the registrar to the registrant to suspend the registrant's registration together with a show cause notice; and
(b) operates immediately the notices are given; and
(c) continues to operate until the earliest of the following happens--
(i) the registrar cancels the remaining period of the suspension;
(ii) the show cause notice is finally dealt with;
(iii) 28 days have passed since the notices were given to the registrant.
(3) Subsection (4) applies if--
(a) a suspension under this section stops because--
(i) the registrar cancels the remaining period of the suspension; or
(ii) the show cause notice is finally dealt with by a decision being made not to cancel or suspend the registration; or
(iii) 28 days have passed since the notices mentioned in subsection (2)(a) were given to the registrant; and
(b) the registrant has returned the certificate of registration to the registrar under section 83.
(4) The registrar must, as soon as practicable, give the certificate of registration to the registrant.