Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies despite any other Act or law.
(2) It is lawful for a person responsible for issuing a relevant document to issue, at the request of the chairperson or in accordance with a new identity authority, a document that helps a protected witness conceal his or her actual identity and personal particulars, including, for example, his or her date and place of birth.
(3) The chairperson, the authorising officer, the person authorised to create a relevant document, the person responsible for issuing the document, and anyone helping to issue the document--
(a) does not commit an offence against any Act or law by authorising, issuing or helping to issue the document; and
(b) no civil proceeding may be started or continued against the person only because of the issue of the document.
(4) Also, any contract or agreement made with a person given a new identity under this Act is not invalid only because of the use by the person of the new identity while the person is authorised under this Act to use the new identity.
(5) In this section--
relevant document means a document that--
(a) may lawfully be issued under an Act; and
(b) may be used to identify a person or authorise a person to do a lawful act.