Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An order made by a small claims tribunal that requires the payment of money may be made to take effect instanter or so as to take effect upon default made in complying with some other order made by the tribunal.
(2) The registrar shall cause a copy of an order that requires the payment of money to be given to the person against whom the order is made as soon as is practicable after its making if that person is not present or represented at its making.
(3) The person to whom payment is to be made under an order that requires the payment of money may enforce the order by the person's filing, free of charge, in the office of the registrar of the Magistrates Court at a place appointed for holding Magistrates Courts in the Magistrates Courts district wherein the person required by the order to make payment resides or has a place of business or wherein the person to whom payment is to be made resides or has a place of business--
(a) a copy of the order certified to be a true copy by the registrar of the registry of small claims tribunals who issues the same; and
(b) the person's affidavit, taken by a justice, as to the amount not paid under the order and, where the order is to take effect upon any default, as to the making of that default;
whereupon the order shall be deemed to be a judgment that requires payment of money duly made by a Magistrates Court pursuant to the Magistrates Courts Act 1921 and may be enforced accordingly.
(3A) No fee shall be payable for the entering of such a judgment.
(4) It shall be competent to a person to file a copy order pursuant to subsection (3) once only, and a second or subsequent filing purportedly pursuant to that subsection shall be ineffectual.
(5) The Limitation of Actions Act 1974 applies in respect of a decision of a small claims tribunal and in respect of the enforcement of any order made by the tribunal as it applies in respect of any judgment.