Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If an inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is in a place a particular thing (the evidence) that may afford evidence of the commission of an offence against this Act, the inspector may--
(a) enter the place; and
(b) exercise the powers mentioned in section 130.
(2) If the inspector enters the place and finds the evidence--
(a) the inspector may seize the evidence; and
(b) the inspector may keep the evidence--
(i) for 6 months; or
(ii) if a proceeding for an offence against this Act involving the evidence is started within 6 months after its seizure--until the end of the proceeding and any appeal from the proceeding; or
(iii) if disciplinary proceedings involving the evidence are started within 6 months after its seizure--until the end of the proceedings and any appeal from the proceedings; and
(c) if the evidence is a document--while the inspector has possession of the document, the inspector--
(i) may take extracts from, and make copies of, the document; and
(ii) must allow the document to be inspected at any reasonable time by a person who would be entitled to inspect it if it were not in the inspector's possession.
(3) The inspector may enter the place or exercise a power under subsection (1) only if--
(a) the occupier of the place consents to the entry or exercise of the power; or
(b) a warrant under section 131 that was issued in relation to the evidence authorises the entry or exercise of the power.
(4) If, while searching the place under subsection (1) under a warrant under section 131, the inspector finds a thing (the secondary evidence) that is not the evidence, then, subject to subsection (5), subsection (2) applies to the secondary evidence as if it were the evidence.
(5) Subsection (4) applies only if the inspector believes, on reasonable grounds, that--
(a) the secondary evidence will afford evidence of the commission of--
(i) the offence mentioned in subsection (1); or
(ii) another offence against this Act; and
(b) it is necessary to seize the secondary evidence to prevent--
(i) its concealment, loss, death or destruction; or
(ii) its use in committing, continuing or repeating either of the offences.