COUNTER-TERRORISM AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 46 Amendment of s 8Q (Power to direct officers of government agencies)

COUNTER-TERRORISM AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 - SECT 46

46 Amendment of s 8Q (Power to direct officers of government agencies)

(1) Section 8Q(1), ‘or a deputy commissioner’—

omit.

(2) Section 8Q(3), after ‘declared areas’—

insert—

or declared evacuation areas

(3) Section 8Q(5)—

omit, insert—

(5) The government agency must be consulted before the direction is given, unless it is not practicable to consult the agency because compliance with the direction—

(a) is required urgently; or

(b) is necessary for the safety of the officer to whom the direction is given or someone else.

(4) Section 8Q(9)—

renumber as section 8Q(10).

(5) Section 8Q—

insert—

(9) This section does not limit the powers a terrorist emergency commander or terrorist emergency officer has under this or another Act.

Example of powers that are not limited by this section—

the powers under section 8 to give a person a resource surrender direction, resource operator direction or help direction