Queensland Consolidated Acts

EVIDENCE ACT 1977 - SECT 14ZC

14ZC Application of subdivision

This subdivision applies if a warrant is issued that authorises a person (an
"authorised officer" ) to enter and search a place or search another person and, during the search—

(a) the authorised officer wishes to deal with a document or thing in a way authorised under the warrant; and

(b) the journalist or a relevant person for the journalist tells the authorised officer that the journalist or relevant person objects to the dealing on the grounds that the document or thing contains information that would—

(i) disclose the identity of the informant as the source of the provided information; or

(ii) enable the identity of the informant as the source of the provided information to be ascertained; and

(c) the authorised officer tells the journalist or relevant person for the journalist the officer still wishes to deal with the document or thing despite the objection.