Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 43A

(1) This section applies if a police officer—

(a) either—

(i) observes a person being sold a thing the police officer reasonably suspects is spray paint; or

(ii) reasonably suspects a person has just been sold spray paint; and

(b) reasonably suspects the person is under 18 years.

(2) A police officer may—

(a) ask the person to show acceptable evidence of age of the person; and

(b) require the person to produce the thing sold to the person.

(3) The police officer may seize the spray paint if—

(a) the person either—

(i) refuses, or is unable, to show acceptable evidence of the person's age; or

(ii) shows acceptable evidence of age of the person showing the person is under 18 years; and

(b) the police officer reasonably suspects the spray paint is evidence of an offence against the Summary Offences Act 2005, section 23B or 23C.

(4) In this section—

acceptable evidence of age has the meaning given under the Summary Offences Act 2005, section 23B.

spray paint has the meaning given under the Summary Offences Act 2005, schedule 2.