Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) All persons entering or upon the parliamentary precinct shall comply with the directions of the Speaker as to the behaviour, demeanour and conduct of such persons.
(2) Directions of the Speaker may take the form of by-laws prescribing behaviour and conduct made from time to time by the Speaker.
(2A) The by-laws may prescribe differing penalties for failure to comply with specified directions as to the behaviour, demeanour and conduct of persons entering or upon the parliamentary precinct but such that no prescribed penalty shall exceed 10 penalty units.
(2B) A by-law is subordinate legislation.
(3) Directions in the form of by-laws made pursuant to subsection (2) shall be deemed to have been directed to every person who thereafter enters or is upon the parliamentary precinct.
(4) Directions made under this section may be directed towards a specified person or a person of a specified class or the holder or holders for the time being of a specified office or of specified classes of office.
(5) The Speaker may authorise the Clerk or a parliamentary service officer or employee to give directions (not inconsistent with any directions given by the Speaker) under this section for the Speaker.
(7) Directions given under this section do not apply to members of the Legislative Assembly in the conduct of their parliamentary business.
(8) For so long as a person (the offender) fails to comply with a direction directed to the offender under this section, the offender shall not be entitled to enter or be upon the parliamentary precinct.
(8A) If, in the opinion of the Clerk or other person authorised in that regard by the Clerk (the authorised person) a person is an offender, the Clerk or authorised person may order the offender to leave the parliamentary precinct and the offender shall forthwith so leave.
(8B) The Clerk, authorised persons and all persons acting in aid of the Clerk or an authorised person, using such force as is necessary, may--
(a) remove from the parliamentary precinct a person to whom an order is given pursuant to subsection (8A); and
(b) prevent that person's return to or on the parliamentary precinct;
unless that person demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Clerk or an authorised person that the person will comply with all current directions made under this section.
(9) A person who fails to comply with a direction made under this section and directed to the person commits an offence against this Act.
Maximum penalty--
(a) where the by-laws prescribe a penalty for a failure to comply with that direction--that penalty;
(b) in any other case--10 penalty units.