Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if a commission officer conducting a crime investigation lawfully enters a place, or is at a public place, and finds at the place a thing the officer reasonably suspects is evidence of the commission of major crime that the commission is investigating.
(2) The officer may seize the thing, whether or not as evidence under a warrant and, if the place is entered under a warrant, whether or not the warrant was issued for the major crime.
(3) Also, the officer may—
(a) photograph the thing seized or the place from which the thing was seized; and
(b) stay at the place and re-enter it for the time reasonably necessary to remove the thing from the place.
(4) If the thing is seized at a place entered under a covert search warrant, section 117 applies as if the thing had been seized under the warrant.
(5) Otherwise, sections 113 to 115 apply as if the thing had been seized under a warrant under part 2.