Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where--
(a) it appears on reasonable grounds to the chief executive that a fire service officer is liable to disciplinary action or is suspected of involvement in circumstances such that the proper and efficient discharge of the functions of the service might be prejudiced if the officer's services are continued; or
(b) an officer is charged in Queensland with having committed an indictable offence or is charged elsewhere with having committed an offence which if it had been committed in Queensland would be an indictable offence;
the officer may be suspended from duty by the chief executive.
(2) A suspension may be lifted at any time by the chief executive.
(3) An officer suspended from duty is not entitled to receive salary for any period during which the officer does not perform that duty, unless the chief executive otherwise determines.
(4) An officer suspended from duty, who is not entitled to salary for the period of suspension and who resumes duty upon the lifting of the suspension, is entitled to receive a sum equivalent to the amount of salary payable had the officer not been suspended diminished by the amount of salary or fees (if any) to which the officer became entitled from any other source during the period of suspension, unless the chief executive otherwise determines.