Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 199

199 Monitoring order applications

(1) A police officer may apply to a Supreme Court judge for an order (
"monitoring order" ) directing a financial institution to give information to a police officer about a named person.

(2) The application—

(a) may be made without notice to any party; and

(b) must—

(i) be sworn and state the grounds on which the order is sought; and

(ii) include information required under the responsibilities code about any monitoring orders issued within the previous year in relation to an account held with the financial institution by the named person.

(3) Subsection (2) (b) applies only to—

(a) information kept in a register that the police officer may inspect; and

(b) information the police officer otherwise actually knows.

(4) The judge may refuse to consider the application until the police officer gives the judge all the information the judge requires about the application in the way the judge requires.

Example—

The judge may require additional information supporting the application to be given by statutory declaration.