Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) When any decision adjudges or requires the payment of any penalty or compensation or sum of money or costs and it appears that the person liable to make such payment does not reside at or near the place where such decision was made the clerk of the court at such place may if the clerk of the court considers that any act or acts for the enforcement of such decision can more conveniently be performed at some other place appointed for holding Magistrates Courts prepare and sign a certificate in duplicate called a 'transfer of fine certificate' and transmit to the clerk of the court at such other place such transfer of fine certificate and the duplicate thereof together with the minute or memorandum of the decision aforesaid.
(2) Where it appears at any time to a clerk of the court to whom a transfer of fine certificate has been transmitted that any act or acts for the enforcement of such decision can more conveniently be performed at some other place appointed for holding Magistrates Courts such clerk of the court may prepare and sign a further transfer of fine certificate, in triplicate, and transmit to the clerk of the court at such other place such certificate and the duplicate thereof together with a minute or memorandum of the decision aforesaid and shall thereupon transmit forthwith to the clerk of the court at the place where the decision aforesaid was made the triplicate of such certificate.
(3) Every transfer of fine certificate shall include particulars of the minute or memorandum of the decision aforesaid and shall state the acts (if any) performed to enforce the said decision and the amount still required to be paid in satisfaction of such decision and when such certificate has been signed by the clerk of the court it shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.
(4) When a clerk of the court receives a transfer of fine certificate the clerk of the court shall forthwith sign the memorandum of receipt endorsed on the duplicate certificate and transmit the same to the clerk of the court from whom the certificate has been received.
(5) As from the date of the transmission of a transfer of fine certificate all acts for the enforcement of such decision which if such a certificate had not been transmitted could have been performed at some other place shall (unless a further transfer of fine certificate is signed and transmitted as hereinbefore provided) be performed at the place to which such certificate has been transmitted and not otherwise.
(6) However, any payment received by a clerk of the court by virtue of a transfer of fine certificate shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to and shall be accounted for by the clerk of the court at the place where such decision was made.
(7) Where such decision is enforced by virtue of a transfer of fine certificate the clerk of the court at the place where such decision is so enforced shall report the result of such enforcement to the clerk of the court at the place where such decision was made.