Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) If an inspector suspects, on reasonable grounds, that a contravention of this Act has happened, the inspector may require any of the following persons to give information about the contravention--
(a) a person who was a security provider at a time relevant to the contravention (a relevant time);
(b) a person who had directly or indirectly engaged a security provider at a relevant time;
(c) a person who was an employee of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) at a relevant time.
(1A) The inspector may require the information to be given--
(a) to the inspector or another specified inspector; or
(b) at the place the requirement is made or at another stated place; or
(c) immediately or at, by or within a stated time; or
(d) in person or in another specified way.
(2) When making the requirement, the inspector must warn the person that it is an offence to fail to give the information, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(3) The person must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse for not complying with it.
Maximum penalty--60 penalty units.
(4) It is a reasonable excuse for the person to fail to give information if giving the information might tend to incriminate the person.
(5) The person does not commit an offence against this section if the information sought by the inspector is not in fact relevant to the contravention.