Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 2008 - SECT 88P

88P Powers for conducting administrative inquiry

(1) For conducting an administrative inquiry, the special commissioner, commission chief executive or appropriately qualified person may do any of the following—

(a) enter official premises of a public service office at a reasonable time;

(b) require the production of, examine, copy, or take an extract from, any official document in the possession of the public service office;

(c) interview employees of the public service office;

(d) interview anyone else who can provide information relevant to the inquiry.

(2) The chief executive or the head of the public service office and each other person employed in the office must provide the assistance reasonably required by the special commissioner, commission chief executive or appropriately qualified person for conducting the inquiry.

(3) However, a person need not answer a question asked by, or give information to, the special commissioner, commission chief executive or appropriately qualified person if answering the question or giving the information might tend to incriminate the individual or expose the individual to a penalty.

(4) In this section—

"official document" , in the possession of a public service office, includes an official document—

(a) under the control of the office, or that the office is entitled to access, whether or not created in the public service office; and

(b) in the possession, or under the control, of a person employed in the public service office in the person’s official capacity.