Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE PENALTIES ENFORCEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 94

94 Records to be kept by employers

(1) An employer must keep written records, in English, of—

(a) all amounts deducted or required to be deducted from earnings under a fine collection notice; and

(b) other acts done, or required to be done, by the employer under this division.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—25 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.

(2) The employer must—

(a) keep the records in a way that correctly records and explains the matters to which they relate; and

(b) keep a particular record for 5 years after it is made.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—25 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment.

(3) This section does not require a person to keep records if the registrar has notified the person, in writing, that keeping the records is not required.

(4) In a proceeding for an offence against subsection (2) (a) , it is a defence for the employer to prove that the employer did not know, and could not reasonably be expected to have known, that the record to which the proceeding relates did not correctly record and explain the matter to which the record relates.