Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE PENALTIES ENFORCEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 186

186 Conversion of applications for fine option orders

(1) This section applies if, before the commencement, a person applied to SPER under former section 43 for the conversion of an amount stated in an enforcement order to hours of unpaid community service under a fine option order and, on the commencement, the application had not been finally dealt with under this Act.

(2) The application is taken to be an application for a work and development order to undertake unpaid work for, or on behalf of, an entity.

(3) For processing the application as an application for a work and development order—

(a) the registrar must assign an approved sponsor for the application; and

(b) despite the amendments, former sections 44 to 46 continue to apply for the application as if a reference in the provisions to a fine option order were a reference to a work and development order; and

(c) former sections 47 to 50 do not apply for the application, regardless of whether the application was referred to the chief executive (corrective services) under former section 47; and

(d) if, before the commencement, the chief executive (corrective services) decided the applicant was not suitable for performing community service under former section 48, the registrar may have regard to the decision when deciding whether to grant the application as an application for a work and development order.