Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 164

164 Restriction about records and access to additional powers warrant applications

(1) Despite the Recording of Evidence Act 1962 , a transcript of an application for an additional powers warrant or an extension of an additional powers warrant and any order made on the application must not be made.

(2) A person must not publish a report of a proceeding on an application for an additional powers warrant or an extension of an additional powers warrant.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—85 penalty units or 1 year’s imprisonment.

(3) A person is not entitled to search information in the custody of the Supreme Court in relation to an application for an additional powers warrant, unless a Supreme Court judge otherwise orders in the interests of justice.

(4) Nothing in this section prevents a person who was present at a proceeding on an application for an additional powers warrant or an extension of an additional powers warrant from giving oral evidence to a court about things that happened at the proceeding.