Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The officer may, by gazette notice, make an order (a display order) prohibiting the display of a specified unrestricted publication for sale at any public place to which children have access unless--
(a) the rack or other thing that may be holding the publication is at least 1.5m above the floor or ground, as the case may be; or
(b) the pictures, drawings and other images on the publication's cover are concealed by the rack or other thing that may be holding the publication; or
(c) the pictures, drawings and other images on the publication's cover are concealed by a cover; or
(d) the pictures, drawings and other images on the publication's cover can not be seen without being handled.
(2) A display order may only be made if the officer is satisfied the order is necessary to protect children or families.
(3) In deciding whether to make a display order, the officer must assume that, generally, it is not in the best interests of children and families to display a publication's cover to children without proper adult supervision if the cover contains--
(a) a gratuitous depiction of inappropriate matter; or
(b) inappropriate matter on which there is an undue emphasis or undue focus.
(4) Also, in deciding whether to make a display order, the officer must take into account any submission received under subsection (5).
(5) If the officer proposes to make a display order, the officer must, if practicable, notify the publication's publisher--
(a) that the officer proposes to make a display order; and
(b) which issue of the publication it is proposed to specify in the order; and
(c) that the publisher may make a submission about the proposal in writing, but not by mail; and
(d) a number to which a submission may be faxed; and
(e) an address at which a submission may be lodged; and
(f) the closing time for receiving a submission.
(6) A display order may be made on the complaint of a person or on the officer's own initiative.
(7) A display order is not subordinate legislation.