Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) For this division, each of the following persons is a protected witness--
(a) a witness under 16 years;
(b) a witness who is a person with an impairment of the mind;
(c) for a proceeding for a prescribed special offence, an alleged victim of the offence;
(d) for a proceeding for a prescribed offence, an alleged victim of the offence who the court considers would be likely to be disadvantaged as a witness, or to suffer severe emotional trauma, unless treated as a protected witness.
(2) It does not matter whether the proceeding mentioned in subsection (1)(c) or (d) relates also to another offence that is not a prescribed special offence or a prescribed offence.
(3) In this section--
alleged victim of an offence means a person, other than the person charged, who is--
(a) alleged to be a person in relation to whom the offence was committed; or
(b) alleged to have been subject to violence in relation to the offence.
prescribed offence means an offence defined in the Criminal Code, section 75, 122, 127, 206, 308, 309, 323, 335, 338A, 339, 340, 346, 354, 354A, 355, 359, 413, 414, 415, 417A or 419.
prescribed special offence means an offence defined in the Criminal Code, section 208, 210, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222, 227, 229B, 306, 313, 315, 316, 317, 320, 320A, 322, 323A, 323B, 359E, 363, 363A, 364, 409 or 412 or chapter 32.
violence means--
(a) an assault on, or injury to, a person; or
(b) a threat of an assault on, or an injury to, a person.