Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 160

160 Search to prevent loss of evidence

(1) This section applies if a police officer reasonably suspects—

(a) a thing at or about a place, or in the possession of a person at or about a place is evidence of the commission of a part 2 offence; and

(b) the evidence may be concealed or destroyed unless the place is immediately entered and searched.

(2) This section also applies if a police officer reasonably suspects a part 2 offence has been, is being, or may be committed in, on or in relation to a transport vehicle and involves the safety of the vehicle or anyone who may be in or on it.

(3) A police officer may enter the place and exercise search warrant powers, other than power to do something that may cause structural damage to a building, at the place as if they were conferred under a search warrant.