Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) An authorised officer may at any reasonable time--
(a) enter premises where business as a travel agent is being carried on or on which it is believed on reasonable grounds that records relating to the business are kept; and
(b) require the production of records kept or required to be kept under this Act; and
(c) inspect and require explanations of any record; and
(d) take notes, copies and extracts of or from any record or statement produced pursuant to this section; and
(e) where in the opinion of the authorised officer it is not appropriate for any note, copy or extract of or from any record or statement to be taken on the premises at which it is produced--remove and detain that record or statement for a reasonable time to enable the note, copy or extract to be taken.
(2) Where an authorised officer referred to in subsection (1), requires a production under that subsection of a record that is not in writing, or is not written in the English language, or is not decipherable on sight, the requirement to produce the record shall be deemed to be a requirement to produce, in addition to the record if it is in writing, or instead of the record if it is not in writing, a statement, written in the English language and decipherable on sight, containing the whole of the information in the record.
(3) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse--
(a) hinder an authorised officer in the exercise of powers conferred by this section; or
(b) fail to comply with a requirement of an authorised officer under this section; or
(c) fail to answer a question put by an authorised officer under this section to the best of the person's knowledge, information and belief.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(4) A person is not required to answer a question or to produce records if the answer to the question or the production of the records would result in or tend towards self-incrimination.
(5) This section does not limit sections 45A to 45F.