Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If a thing is seized by an environmental health officer under section 43J, the officer must allow a person who would be entitled to the seized thing if it were not in the officer's possession to inspect it and, if it is a document, to take extracts from or make copies of it.
(2) If the seized thing is a document, an environmental health officer may take extracts from or make copies of it.
(3) The environmental health officer must return the seized thing to the person at the end of--
(a) 6 months; or
(b) if a prosecution for an offence involving it is started within the 6 months--the prosecution for the offence and any appeal from the prosecution.
(4) Despite subsection (3), the environmental health officer must return the seized thing to the person immediately the officer stops being satisfied its retention as evidence is necessary.