Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 179F

179F Responsibility after establishing missing person scene before obtaining missing person warrant

(1) This section applies if a police officer establishes a missing person scene at a place before obtaining a missing person warrant.

(2) As soon as reasonably practicable after establishing the missing person scene, a police officer must apply under section 179J to a Supreme Court judge or magistrate for a missing person warrant.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if the place is a public place, unless the place is a public place only while it is ordinarily open to the public and the occupier of the place requires a police officer at the place to leave the place.