Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 551

551 Use of electronic screening devices

(1) This section applies if the system for the security of a state building involves the use of 1 or more of the following electronic screening devices—

(a) a walk-through detector;

(b) an X-ray machine;

(c) a hand held scanner.

(2) A police officer or protective services officer may ask an entrant to the state building to do 1 or more of the following things—

(a) to walk through a walk-through detector;

(b) to pass the entrant’s belongings through an X-ray machine;

(c) to allow the officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant;

(d) to allow the officer to pass a hand held scanner in close proximity to the entrant’s belongings.