Queensland Numbered Acts

TRANSPORT SECURITY (COUNTER-TERRORISM) ACT 2008 No. 63

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Contents

CHAPTER 1--PRELIMINARY

           Part 1--General

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Main purpose
   4.      Overall objectives
   5.      Act binds all persons
   6.      Relationship to other Acts

           Part 2--Interpretation

   7.      Definitions
   8.      Meaning of surface transport operation
   9.      Meaning of security-identified surface transport operation or SISTO

CHAPTER 2--DECLARATION OF SISTOS

   10.     Assessment of the level of risk of being a target of a terrorist act
   11.     Declaration
   12.     Amending a declaration notice
   13.     Giving notice about a declaration to the SISTO entity
   14.     Revoking a declaration notice

CHAPTER 3--SISTOS

           Part 1--Preparing risk management plan

   15.     Requirement to prepare a risk management plan and give a copy of it to the chief executive
   16.     Preparing a plan
   17.     Content of a plan
   18.     Guidelines for preparing a risk management plan

           Part 2--Other provisions about plan

   19.     Implementing and complying with a plan
   20.     Annual audit of risk management plan
   21.     Audit record
   22.     Reviewing a plan
   23.     Review record
   24.     Amending a plan after review
   25.     Preparing, conducting and participating in exercises to test the operation of a plan
   26.     Test exercise record
   27.     Annual certificate about auditing, reviewing and testing the operation of the plan
   28.     Giving chief executive notice of change to contact information in risk management plan

CHAPTER 4--MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT

           Part 1--Authorised officers

   29.     Appointment and qualifications
   30.     Appointment conditions and limit on powers
   31.     Issue of identity card
   32.     Production or display of identity card
   33.     When authorised officer ceases to hold office
   34.     Resignation
   35.     Return of identity card

           Part 2--Powers of authorised officers

           Division 1--Entry of places

   36.     Power to enter places
   37.     Procedure for entry with consent

           Division 2--Entry of prescribed vehicles

   38.     Power of entry
   39.     Procedure before entry

           Division 3--General enforcement powers

   40.     Application of div 3
   41.     General powers of authorised officer after entering a place or prescribed vehicle
   42.     Power to require reasonable help or information

           Division 4--Other powers

   43.     Power to require a name and address
   44.     Failure to give a name or address
   45.     Power to require information or documents

CHAPTER 5--POWERS OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE

   46.     Power to give a direction to comply
   47.     Power to seek a court order suspending SISTO if there is an unacceptable risk of significant adverse impacts

CHAPTER 6--OTHER ENFORCEMENT MATTERS

   48.     False or misleading statements
   49.     False or misleading documents
   50.     Obstructing an authorised officer
   51.     Pretending to be an authorised officer

CHAPTER 7--LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

           Part 1--General

   52.     Proceedings for offences
   53.     Court may prohibit publication of all or part of a proceeding
   54.     Protection of counter-terrorism information in legal proceedings

           Part 2--Other provisions about proceedings

   55.     Executive officers must ensure a corporation complies with this Act
   56.     Inclusion of reasonable diligence

CHAPTER 8--MISCELLANEOUS

   57.     Confidentiality
   58.     Protection from liability
   59.     Approved forms
   60.     Regulation-making power
   61.     Review of Act
           SCHEDULE -- DICTIONARY