Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to an authorised officer who enters a place with the occupier's consent or a warrant.
(2) The officer may, for monitoring or enforcing compliance with this Act--
(a) search any part of the place; or
(b) inspect, measure, weigh, test, photograph or film the place or anything in the place; or
(c) take samples of anything in the place; or
(d) copy, or take an extract from, a document in the place; or
(e) take the persons, equipment and materials the officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this Act into the place; or
(f) require a person in the place to give the officer reasonable help to exercise the powers mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (e).
Examples of requirements under paragraph (f)--
a requirement to operate equipment or facilities
a requirement to give access, free of charge, to photocopying equipment
(3) A person must comply with a requirement under subsection (2)(f), unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--
(a) if paragraph (b) does not apply--60 penalty units; or
(b) if the requirement related to exercising powers in relation to a heavy vehicle, the transport of dangerous goods or a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle--60 penalty units.
(4) A requirement under subsection (2)(f) does not include--
(a) a requirement to produce a document or give information; or
(b) a requirement to help the authorised officer find and gain access to a document or information.
Editor's note--
For the power to make a requirement mentioned in paragraph (a), see sections 49 and 50. For the power to make a requirement mentioned in paragraph (b), see section 50AB.
(5) Subsection (6) applies for the exercise of a power under subsection (2) by an authorised officer, in relation to a heavy vehicle, the transport of dangerous goods or a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle to decide if anything found at the place may be seized under division 3.
(6) The authorised officer may move the thing to another place if--
(a) it is not practicable to exercise the power in relation to the thing at the place where it is found; or
(b) the occupier of the place where it is found consents in writing.