Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 128

128 Power under surveillance warrants

A commission officer to whom a surveillance warrant is directed may, subject to the warrant, lawfully exercise any of the following powers under the warrant (
"surveillance powers" )—

(a) power to enter a stated place or class of place, covertly or through subterfuge, to install a surveillance device;

(b) power to install and use a surveillance device to intercept and record private conversations;

(c) power to remove a thing to another place to install a surveillance device in the thing;

(d) power to use an assistant to translate or interpret conversations intercepted under the warrant;

(e) power to take electricity for using a surveillance device;

(f) power to use reasonable force—

(i) to enter a place to install a surveillance device; or

(ii) to install a surveillance device;

(g) power to use 1 or more surveillance devices in the same place;

(h) power to pass through, over, under or along a place to get to the place where the surveillance device is to be used.