Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsA police officer is entitled to enter on and to be in a council area--
(a) for the purpose of discharging or exercising a function, duty or power imposed or conferred on the officer by law; or
(b) for the purpose of performing any act or thing that the officer is by this Act authorised to perform pursuant to an authority or requirement of a by-law of an Aboriginal council;
and, in the case referred to in paragraph (b), the officer shall be deemed to be acting in the discharge of the officer's duty as a police officer.