Queensland Numbered Acts

GUARDIANSHIP AND ADMINISTRATION AND OTHER ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 2008 No. 54 - SECT 14

After section 143--

insert--

'(1) The tribunal may make an order--

(a) excluding a disruptive person from the place the tribunal is sitting; and

(b) authorising the tribunal's staff to use necessary and reasonable help and force to remove a disruptive person from the place the tribunal is sitting.

'(2) If the tribunal makes an order under subsection (1), the order is taken to be an authorising law for the purposes of the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, section 16.

Note--

The Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, section 16 (Helping public officials exercise powers under other Acts) provides for a police officer, if a public official asks, to help the public official perform the public official's functions under an authorising law.

'(3) If the tribunal makes an order under subsection (1)(b), it is lawful for the tribunal's staff, and any person helping the tribunal's staff, to remove the disruptive person from the place the tribunal is sitting, using necessary and reasonable force for the purpose.

'(4) In this section--

disruptive person means a person who the tribunal considers is contravening section 143 at the place the tribunal is sitting.'.