Queensland Consolidated Acts
[Index]
[Table]
[Search]
[Search this Act]
[Notes]
[Noteup]
[Previous]
[Next]
[Download]
[Help]
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2005 - SECT 399
General powers after entering places
399 General powers after entering places
(1) This section applies to an authorised person who enters a place.
(2)
However, if an authorised person enters a place to get the occupier’s
consent to enter a place, this section applies to the authorised person only
if the consent is given or the entry is otherwise authorised.
(3) For
monitoring and enforcing compliance with this Act or establishing whether
there is a public health risk at the place, the authorised person 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
authorised person reasonably requires for exercising a power under this
chapter; or
(f) require a person at the place to give the authorised person
reasonable help to exercise the authorised person’s powers under paragraphs
(a) to (e) ; or
(g) require a person at the place to answer questions by the
authorised person, or to give the authorised person information, to help the
authorised person ascertain whether this Act is being or has been complied
with or there is a public health risk at the place.
(4) When making a
requirement mentioned in subsection (3) (f) or (g) , the authorised person
must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement,
unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(5) If an authorised person takes
a document from a place to copy it, the document must be copied as soon as
practicable and returned to the place.
AustLII: Copyright Policy
| Disclaimers
| Privacy Policy
| Feedback