Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A police officer may exercise a power under section 48 in relation to a person at or near a regulated place if a police officer reasonably suspects the person's behaviour is or has been--
(a) causing anxiety to a person entering, at or leaving the place, reasonably arising in all the circumstances; or
(b) interfering with trade or business at the place by unnecessarily obstructing, hindering or impeding someone entering, at or leaving the place; or
(c) disorderly, indecent, offensive, or threatening to someone entering, at or leaving the place; or
(d) disrupting the peaceable and orderly conduct of any event, entertainment or gathering at the place.
(2) If the regulated place is a public place, subsection (1) applies in relation to a person at or near the public place only if the person's behaviour has or had the effect mentioned in subsection (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) in the part of the public place at or near where the person then is.
(3) Subsection (1)(b) applies to premises used for trade or business only if the occupier of the premises complains about the person's behaviour.
(4) However, subsections (1)(b) and (3) do not limit subsection (1)(a), (c) and (d).
(5) This part also applies to a person in a regulated place if a police officer reasonably suspects that, because of the person's behaviour, the person is soliciting for prostitution.
(6) For this part, the person's behaviour is a relevant act.