Queensland Consolidated Acts

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 582

582 Compliance with noise abatement direction

(1) A person to whom a noise abatement direction is given must—

(a) immediately comply with the direction; and

(b) refrain from the emission, or contributing to the emission, of excessive noise from the place to which the direction relates or, if the direction relates only to a part of the place, the stated part of the place, for the noise abatement period.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(2) A person who knows a noise abatement direction has been given must refrain from the emission, or contributing to the emission, of excessive noise from the place to which the direction relates or, if the direction relates only to a part of the place, the stated part of the place, for the noise abatement period.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—10 penalty units.

(3) For applying subsection (1) or (2) , it does not matter that noise emitted from a place in contravention of the subsection is not of the same level or nature of the excessive noise for which the noise abatement direction was given.

(4) In a proceeding for an offence against this section, it is not necessary to prove the noise abatement direction was given in response to a complaint about noise made to a police officer.

(5) In this section—

"noise abatement period" means—

(a) for a noise abatement direction given in relation to a motorbike being used on a place that is not a road—48 hours after the direction is given; or

(b) for any other noise abatement direction—96 hours after the direction is given.