Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Without limiting section 35 or 35A, this section applies to help an authorised officer who exercises a power in relation to a heavy vehicle or a prescribed dangerous goods vehicle under section 35 or 35A--
(a) to access or download information contained on anything found in or at the vehicle; or
Example of information contained on a thing--
information contained on a disk, tape or other device
(b) to decide if anything found in the vehicle may be seized under division 3.
(2) The authorised officer, or a person helping the authorised officer, may exercise the power by operating equipment that is--
(a) in or at the vehicle; or
(b) taken into the vehicle under section 35(2)(g); or
(c) where the thing has been moved under subsection (4).
(3) However, subsection (2) only applies if the authorised officer or person reasonably believes--
(a) the equipment is suitable for exercising the power; and
(b) the power can be exercised without damaging the equipment or thing.
(4) For exercising a power as mentioned in subsection (1)(b), the authorised officer may move the thing to somewhere else if--
(a) it is not practicable to exercise the power in relation to the thing where it is found; or
(b) the person in control of the vehicle consents in writing.