Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2A), an authorised officer may require a person to produce for inspection a document issued, or required to be kept, by the person under a transport Act or a corresponding law.
Examples--
an Australian driver licence
a logbook or work diary
(2) The person must comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--45 penalty units.
(2A) Only an authorised officer who is a police officer may require the driver of a private vehicle to produce his or her driver licence under subsection (1).
(3) The officer may keep the document to make a note on it or copy it.
(4) If the officer copies it, the officer may require the person responsible for keeping the document to certify the copy as a true copy of the document.
(5) The person must certify the copy, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
Maximum penalty--45 penalty units.
(6) The officer must return the document to the person as soon as practicable after making the note or copying it.
(7) Despite subsections (3) and (6), a regulation may provide that an authorised officer may seize a document if--
(a) the document is a licence and the authorised officer reasonably believes any of the following--
(i) the licence has been cancelled or suspended;
(ii) the licence has ended;
(iii) the licence has been amended and the amendment is not recorded on the licence;
(iv) the person who produces the licence is not the licensee or is disqualified, however described, by an Australian court from holding or obtaining an Australian driver licence; or
(b) the document purports to be a licence and the authorised officer reasonably believes the document is not a licence.