Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 326

326 Monitor’s functions

(1) The public interest monitor has the following functions for surveillance warrants and covert search warrants—

(a) to monitor compliance by the commission with this Act in relation to matters concerning applications for surveillance warrants and covert search warrants;

(b) to appear at any hearing of an application to a Supreme Court judge or a magistrate for a surveillance warrant or covert search warrant to test the validity of the application, and for that purpose at the hearing—

(i) to ask questions of the applicant and to examine or cross-examine any witness; and

(ii) to make submissions on the appropriateness of granting the application; and

(c) to gather statistical information about the use and effectiveness of surveillance warrants and covert search warrants;

(d) whenever the public interest monitor considers it appropriate—to give to the commission and the parliamentary committee a report on noncompliance by the commission with this Act.

(2) Subject to the direction of the public interest monitor, a deputy public interest monitor has the functions mentioned in subsection (1) (a) , (b) and (c) .