Queensland Consolidated Acts

DEBT COLLECTORS (FIELD AGENTS AND COLLECTION AGENTS) ACT 2014 - SECT 38

38 Impersonating debt collectors

(1) A creditor, when dealing with a person for payment of a debt, must not use any name, description, document or device intended to make the person believe that the person is not dealing directly with the creditor, but with a debt collector acting on the creditor’s behalf.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.

(2) A debt collector must not give any document to a creditor to enable the creditor to make a third person believe that the third person is dealing directly with the debt collector.

Example for subsection (2)—

debt collector’s letterhead or stationery

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—200 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.