Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 157ZB

157ZB Requirements for search of possessions

(1) A person authorised under section 157Y to carry out a search of a person’s possessions (the
"searcher" ) may—

(a) open or inspect a thing in the person’s possession; and

(b) remove and inspect any detected thing.

(2) However, the searcher may exercise a power to inspect a thing under subsection (1) only if the person is present or has been given the opportunity to be present.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the person obstructs the searcher in the exercise of the searcher’s powers.