Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to an inspector who enters a place under this part.
(2) For monitoring or enforcing compliance with this Act, the inspector may--
(a) search any part of the place; or
(b) examine, inspect, test, measure, photograph or film anything on the place; or
(c) take samples of anything on the place; or
(d) remove an explosive or an ingredient of an explosive for examination or testing; or
(e) copy a document on the place; or
(f) take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the inspector reasonably requires for exercising a power under this part; or
(g) require a person in the place to give the inspector reasonable help to exercise the powers mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f).
(3) A person required to give reasonable help under subsection (2)(g) must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--20 penalty units.
(4) If the help is required to be given to an inspector by--
(a) answering a question; or
(b) producing a document (other than an authority or a document required to be kept under this Act);
it is a reasonable excuse for the person to fail to answer the question, or produce the document, if complying with the requirement might tend to incriminate the person.