Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Except as otherwise expressly provided in or under this Act, this Act applies (despite anything to the contrary in any other Act or law) to and in respect of a contract of sale, credit contract or mortgage--
(a) if the contract of sale, credit contract or mortgage is in writing and is signed in Queensland by the buyer, debtor or mortgagor; or
(b) where the contract of sale, credit contract or mortgage is not in writing or is in writing but is not signed by the buyer, debtor or mortgagor in Queensland or in a recognised State--
(i) in the case of a contract of sale, if the goods or services are, or are to be, delivered or supplied in Queensland; or
(ii) in the case of a credit contract, if the credit is, or is to be, provided to the debtor in Queensland or the debtor has, or is to have, the use or benefit of the credit in Queensland; or
(iii) in the case of a mortgage, if property subject to the mortgage is at the date of creation of the mortgage situated in Queensland.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), a provision of this Act that relates to a contract of sale, credit contract, mortgage or contract for the hiring of goods does not apply to or in relation to a contract of sale, credit contract, mortgage or contract for the hiring of goods, as the case may be, made before the commencement of the provision.
(3) This Act (except sections 59, 60 and 68(1)(c), parts 2, 7 and 8 and part 9, division 3) applies to and in relation to a continuing credit contract made before the commencement of part 3 that, if it had been made after that commencement, would have been a continuing credit contract to which that part applies but nothing in this Act applies to or in relation to a billing cycle that commenced before the commencement of that part.
(4) Where, because of subsection (3), this Act (except sections 59, 60 and 68(1)(c), parts 2, 7 and 8 and part 9, division 3) applies to and in relation to a continuing credit contract, the credit provider shall, when the credit provider first gives a statement of account referred to in section 62 after the commencement of part 3 give to the debtor a statement in accordance with section 59 and a notice stating the matters required to be stated in a notice under section 60.