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Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991
sec.105JEntry procedure
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### sec.105J Entry procedure
This section applies if an investigator is intending to enter a place under a warrant issued under this subdivision.
Before entering the place, the investigator must do or make a reasonable attempt to do the following things—
identify himself or herself to a person who is an occupier of the place and is present by producing the investigator’s identity card or another document evidencing the investigator’s appointment;
give the person a copy of the warrant;
tell the person the investigator is permitted by the warrant to enter the place;
give the person an opportunity to allow the investigator immediate entry to the place without using force.
However, the investigator need not comply with subsection (2) if the investigator believes on reasonable grounds that entry to the place without compliance is required to ensure the execution of the warrant is not frustrated.
In this section—
warrant includes a duplicate warrant mentioned in section 105H (3) .
s 105J ins 2017 No. 29 s 22
amd 2017 No. 43 s 294 (1) , (3)
(sec.105J-ssec.1) This section applies if an investigator is intending to enter a place under a warrant issued under this subdivision.
(sec.105J-ssec.2) Before entering the place, the investigator must do or make a reasonable attempt to do the following things— identify himself or herself to a person who is an occupier of the place and is present by producing the investigator’s identity card or another document evidencing the investigator’s appointment; give the person a copy of the warrant; tell the person the investigator is permitted by the warrant to enter the place; give the person an opportunity to allow the investigator immediate entry to the place without using force.
(sec.105J-ssec.3) However, the investigator need not comply with subsection (2) if the investigator believes on reasonable grounds that entry to the place without compliance is required to ensure the execution of the warrant is not frustrated.
(sec.105J-ssec.4) In this section— warrant includes a duplicate warrant mentioned in section 105H (3) .
- (a) identify himself or herself to a person who is an occupier of the place and is present by producing the investigator’s identity card or another document evidencing the investigator’s appointment;
- (b) give the person a copy of the warrant;
- (c) tell the person the investigator is permitted by the warrant to enter the place;
- (d) give the person an opportunity to allow the investigator immediate entry to the place without using force.