Queensland Consolidated Acts

PLANNING ACT 2016 - SECT 198

198 General powers

(1) The inspector may do any of the following—

(a) search any part of the place;

(b) inspect, examine or film—

(i) any part of the place; or

(ii) anything at the place;

(c) take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place;

(d) place an identifying mark in or on anything at the place;

(e) take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place, or take the document to another place to copy;

(f) produce an image or writing at the place from an electronic document or, to the extent it is not practicable, take a thing containing an electronic document to another place to produce an image or writing;

(g) take to, into or onto the place and use any person, equipment and materials the inspector reasonably requires for exercising the inspector’s powers under this division;

(h) remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry.

(2) The inspector may take a necessary step to allow the exercise of a power stated in subsection (1) .

(3) If the inspector takes a document from the place to copy it, the inspector must copy the document and return it to the place as soon as practicable.

(4) If the inspector takes from the place a device reasonably capable of producing a document from an electronic document to produce the document, the inspector must produce the document and return the device to the place as soon as practicable.

(5) In this section—

"film" includes photograph, videotape and record an image in another way.

"inspect" , a thing, includes open the thing and examine its contents.