Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), a prisoner who has been sentenced, whether before or after the commencement of this section, to a period of imprisonment must not carry on, or participate in the carrying on of, a business while the prisoner is in a corrective services facility.
Example—
the painting of art work to be sold on the internet by the prisoner or by a corporation in whose management the prisoner participates including, for example, as a director
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(2) Subsections (3) and (4) apply to a person who is carrying on, or participating in the carrying on of, a business when the person is sentenced to a period of imprisonment (the pre-sentence business).
(3) The person must, within 21 days after being sentenced—
(a) stop carrying on the pre-sentence business; or
(b) stop participating in the carrying on of the pre-sentence business.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to the person in relation to the pre-sentence business until the end of the 21 days mentioned in subsection (3).