Queensland Consolidated Acts

STATE BUILDINGS PROTECTIVE SECURITY ACT 1983 - SECT 21

(1) This section applies if the systems for the security of a state building involve--

(a) the presence of a security officer in the building; and

(b) the use of 1 or more of the following electronic screening devices--

(i) a device through which an entrant walks, that detects metal or other substances (a walk-through detector);

(ii) a device through which an entrant's belongings are passed and X-rayed (an X-ray machine);

(iii) a device, held by a security officer and passed over or around an entrant or an entrant's belongings, that detects metal or other substances (a hand held scanner).

(2) A security officer may ask an entrant of the building to do 1 or more of the following--

(a) to walk through a walk-through detector;

(b) to pass the entrant's belongings through an X-ray machine;

(c) to allow the officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant;

(d) to allow the officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant's belongings.

(3) A senior protective security officer may direct an entrant of whom a request has been made under subsection (2) to do 1 or more of the things mentioned in the subsection if the senior protective security officer is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the entrant failed to comply with the request.