Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to an authorised officer who enters a place with the occupier's consent or a warrant.
(2) The officer may, for monitoring or enforcing compliance with this Act—
(a) search any part of the place; or
(b) inspect, measure, weigh, test, photograph or film the place or anything in the place; or
(c) take samples of anything in the place; or
(d) copy, or take an extract from, a document in the place; or
(e) take the persons, equipment and materials the officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this Act into the place; or
(f) require a person in the place to give the officer reasonable help to exercise the powers mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e).
Examples of requirements under paragraph (f)—
a requirement to operate equipment or facilities
a requirement to give access, free of charge, to photocopying equipment
(3) A person must comply with a requirement under subsection (2)(f), unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty—
(a) if paragraph (b) does not apply—60 penalty units; or
(b) if the requirement related to exercising powers in relation to a heavy vehicle, the transport of dangerous goods or a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle—60 penalty units.
(4) A requirement under subsection (2)(f) does not include—
(a) a requirement to produce a document or give information; or
(b) a requirement to help the authorised officer find and gain access to a document or information.
Editor's note—
For the power to make a requirement mentioned in paragraph (a), see sections 49 and 50. For the power to make a requirement mentioned in paragraph (b), see section 50AB.
(5) Subsection (6) applies for the exercise of a power under subsection (2) by an authorised officer, in relation to a heavy vehicle, the transport of dangerous goods or a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle to decide if anything found at the place may be seized under division 3.
(6) The authorised officer may move the thing to another place if—
(a) it is not practicable to exercise the power in relation to the thing at the place where it is found; or
(b) the occupier of the place where it is found consents in writing.