Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If QCAT finds a registered valuer has engaged in professional misconduct, incompetence or negligence, QCAT may do 1 or more of the following--
(a) admonish or reprimand the valuer;
(b) order the valuer to give an undertaking to abstain from specified conduct;
(c) order the valuer to pay to the board a penalty of an amount equal to not more than 100 penalty units;
(d) order that the valuer's registration be suspended for up to 12 months;
(e) order that the valuer's registration be cancelled.
(2) QCAT may order the valuer to pay to the board, within a stated time, the costs or part of the costs of and incidental to the proceeding, including the costs or part of the costs of the investigation that led to the proceeding.
(3) An order under subsection (1)(c) or (2) may contain a direction that the valuer's registration is to be suspended for a stated period or cancelled if the valuer fails to pay the penalty or costs within the stated time.
(4) If the valuer does not pay the penalty or costs within the stated time, the valuer's registration is suspended or cancelled in accordance with the direction.
(5) If QCAT makes an order under subsection (1)(e), or the valuer's registration is cancelled under subsection (4), subject to an order made by QCAT, the board must--
(a) remove the name and other particulars of the valuer from the register; and
(b) publish notice of the removal in a newspaper circulating throughout the State and on the board's website.
(6) Subject to an order made by QCAT, the board may also publish, in the newspaper or on its website, notice of any action taken under subsection (1)(a) to (d) or any suspension of a valuer's registration under subsection (4).