Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A police officer may require the person in control of a vehicle, other than a train or a vehicle being pulled by an animal, to stop the vehicle for a prescribed purpose.
(2) The person must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--
(a) for a private vehicle--60 penalty units; or
(b) for another vehicle--120 penalty units.
Example of a reasonable excuse for subsection (2)--
It is a reasonable excuse for a person not to comply with a requirement if--
(a) the person reasonably believes that to immediately comply would endanger the person or someone else; and
(b) the person complies with the requirement at the first reasonable opportunity.
(3) The prescribed purposes are as follows--
(a) for enforcing a transport Act;
(b) to check whether the vehicle or person is complying with a transport Act;
(c) for monitoring or enforcing a liquor provision;
(d) for enforcing a contravention of law involving putting, dropping and leaving litter on a public place from a vehicle;
(e) to conduct a breath test or saliva test;
(f) to investigate the emission of excessive noise from--
(i) a motor vehicle on a road or in a public place; or
(ii) a motorbike being driven on a place other than a road;
(g) to give a noise abatement direction to the person responsible for the emission of excessive noise from--
(i) a motor vehicle on a road or in a public place; or
(ii) a motorbike being driven on a place other than a road;
Note--
For the power to give noise abatement directions, see section 581.
(h) to impound a motor vehicle under chapter 4.
(4) For monitoring or enforcing a liquor provision, the police officer may exercise any of the following powers if the officer reasonably suspects the exercise of the power may be effective for the purpose--
(a) enter the vehicle and remain in it for the time reasonably necessary for the purpose;
(b) search the vehicle and anything in it;
(c) inspect, measure, test, photograph or film the vehicle or anything in it;
(d) take samples of anything in or on the vehicle;
(e) seize anything the officer reasonably suspects is evidence of the commission of an offence against a liquor provision;
(f) copy a document in the vehicle;
(g) move the vehicle's load.
(5) For conducting a breath test or saliva test, the police officer may enter the vehicle and remain in it for the time reasonably necessary for the purpose.
Examples for subsection (5)--
1 The police officer may hold a breath or saliva testing device in or through an open window of a car so the driver can provide a specimen of breath or saliva.
2 The police officer may board a boat so the driver of the boat can provide a specimen of breath or saliva.
(6) In this section--
excessive noise means excessive noise mentioned in section 576(1) and to which chapter 19, part 3 applies.
in, for a vehicle, includes on the vehicle.
liquor provision means any of the following provisions--
(a) the Liquor Act 1992, section 168B, 169 or 171;
(b) the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (Justice, Land and Other Matters) Act 1984, section 35 or 45.
monitor, a liquor provision, means check whether the provision is being complied with.