Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 347

347 General powers after entering places

(1) This section applies to an emergency officer who enters a place to respond to a declared public health emergency.

(2) The emergency officer may—

(a) search any part of the place; or

(b) inspect, measure, test, photograph or film any part of the place or anything at the place; or

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

(d) copy a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy it; or

(e) take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the emergency officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this chapter; or

(f) require a person at the place to give the emergency officer reasonable help to exercise the emergency officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (e) .

(3) When making a requirement mentioned in subsection (2) (f) the emergency officer must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

(4) If an emergency officer takes a document from a place to copy it, the document must be copied as soon as practicable and returned to the place.