Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person must not, in trade or commerce, provide, in Queensland or elsewhere, a service of informing another person of the location of a traffic enforcement site for the purpose of, or that has the effect of, enabling the other person to avoid, or be prepared for, a check made at the site.
Maximum penalty--100 penalty units.
(2) For subsection (1), a person provides a service of informing another person of the location of a traffic enforcement site if the person makes information about the location of a traffic enforcement site available to the other person by a relevant message.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to the provider of a telephone service or an internet service provider only because another person uses the provider's telephone or internet service to inform someone else of the location of a traffic enforcement site.
(4) In this section--
internet message means a message that may be viewed by a person on a website.
message includes information in any form, whether or not for a particular person.
relevant message means any of the following that informs a person of the location of a traffic enforcement site--
(a) an internet message;
(b) an SMS message;
(c) another type of message that may be heard, read or otherwise viewed by a person using a mobile phone.
SMS message means a text message sent using the mobile phone service known as the short messaging service.
traffic enforcement site means a place being used by a police officer to perform random or systematic checks of compliance by drivers with the Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995.
Examples of traffic enforcement site--
the site of a speed camera
a random breath test site
a vehicle safety check site