Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Every police officer is an authorised person for relevant transport legislation.
(2) Subject to section 111A(1), the chief executive may appoint any of the following persons to be an authorised person, other than an authorised person (transit officer), for relevant transport legislation—
(a) a public service employee;
(b) an employee of, or a contractor for, a railway manager or railway operator;
(c) an employee of a contractor mentioned in paragraph (b);
(d) another person prescribed under a regulation.
(3) Subject to section 111A(2), the chief executive may appoint any of the following persons to be an authorised person (transit officer) (a transit officer) for relevant transport legislation—
(a) a public service employee;
(b) an employee of a railway manager or railway operator that is a GOC or a wholly owned subsidiary of a GOC.
(4) The chief executive may restrict the powers of an authorised person (other than a police officer) by written notice given to the person.
(5) An authorised person who is a person mentioned in subsection (2)(b) or (c) or (3)(b) may exercise a power under this Act only in relation to a railway managed or operated by the railway manager or railway operator of whom the person is an employee, a contractor or an employee of a contractor.
(6) Subsection (5) does not apply to an authorised person who is—
(a) an employee of, or a contractor for, a rail GOC or a subsidiary of a rail GOC; or
(b) an employee of a contractor for the rail GOC or subsidiary.
(7) In this section—
rail GOC see the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994, schedule 6.