Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) In addition to all other powers had by it to remove persons from land of which it is lessee, the Council of the Shire of Aurukun and the Council of the Shire of Mornington may cause its agents to summarily remove from its area--
(a) any person who is there without authority conferred by this Act or by the local laws of the council;
(b) any person--
(i) who belongs to a class of person that is excluded from its area by its local laws; or
(ii) who belongs to a class of person whose entry to its area is prohibited by its local laws; or
(iii) who, being a member of a class of person whose entry to, being in or residing in its area is restricted by its local laws, has contravened or failed to comply with the relevant local laws.
(2) Any police officer, upon being requested so to do by an agent of either council referred to in subsection (1), must, if practicable, assist in the summary removal of any person under that subsection and, while so acting, is authorised to be in the shire concerned.
(3) No liability shall attach to any police officer by reason only of the fact that a person in whose removal from an area the police officer has assisted should not have been so removed.
(4) It is lawful to use reasonable force in the exercise of the power conferred by subsection (1) and in assisting therein.
(5) A person who is lawfully removed from the Shire of Aurukun or from the Shire of Mornington and who at the time of the person's removal was qualified to be nominated as a candidate and to be elected as mayor or councillor of the local government of the shire shall, after the person's removal, not be qualified to be nominated as a candidate or to be elected or appointed or to act as mayor or councillor of that local government unless the person becomes a resident in the shire, duly authorised according to law.