Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 165

165 Powers under additional powers warrant

(1) A commission officer to whom an additional powers warrant is directed may, subject to the warrant, lawfully exercise the following powers under the warrant—

(a) power, at any time during business hours—

(i) to enter premises at which records of a financial entity or a suspected associate of a person being investigated are held; and

(ii) to inspect and make copies of, or take extracts from, the records so far as they relate to the affairs of the person being investigated;

(b) power to seize passports, other travel documents, instruments of title to property, securities and financial documents found in the possession or control of a person concerned in an investigation;

(c) power to require a person to give to the commission or officer 1 or more sworn affidavits or statutory declarations relating to the property of, financial transactions of, or movements of money or other assets by—

(i) for a corruption investigation—a person holding an appointment in a unit of public administration or someone associated with the person holding the appointment; or

(ii) for a crime investigation relating to terrorism—a person being investigated or a suspected associate of the person being investigated.

(2) In this section—

"financial entity" means—

(a) a financial institution; or

(b) an insurance company; or

(c) a stock and share broker; or

(d) a person engaged in a business of—

(i) investing money for others; or

(ii) providing credit facilities.

"person being investigated" means a person to whom an investigation by the commission relates.

"suspected associate" , of a person being investigated, means a person suspected of having a relevant association with the person being investigated.