Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person who ceases to hold office as an appointed justice of the peace or appointed commissioner for declarations under section 17(a), (b) or (c), within 14 days is to deliver up to the registrar any seal of office or certificate of registration issued to the person under this Act or under the repealed Act.
Maximum penalty--10 penalty units.
(2) The registrar is to return to any person who resumes office as an appointed justice of the peace or as an appointed commissioner for declarations under section 25(3)(b), a certificate of registration or seal of office of the person delivered up to the registrar under subsection (1).
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), if a person to whom a seal of office or certificate of registration is or was issued under this Act or the repealed Act ceases to hold the office for which the seal or certificate is or was issued, the registrar may give a notice to any person in possession of the seal or certificate requiring the person to deliver it up in accordance with reasonable directions specified in the notice.
(4) A person to whom a notice under subsection (3) is given is to comply with the notice.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.