Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 168

168 Issue of arrest warrant

(1) The magistrate may issue a warrant for the apprehension of the person if the magistrate is satisfied—

(a) on sworn evidence before the magistrate—

(i) the person—

(A) has been given the attendance notice; and

(B) has, without reasonable excuse, failed to attend at the commission hearing as required by the notice; or

(ii) the person has made a representation that the person intends not to attend at a commission hearing as required by the attendance notice; and

(b) it is in the public interest that the person be compelled to attend at the hearing to avoid prejudice to the conduct of an investigation.

(2) For subsection (1) (a) (ii) , an arrest warrant may be issued even though the time stated in the attendance notice for the person to attend has not yet passed.

(3) In this section—

"representation" includes—

(a) an express or implied representation, whether oral or in writing; and

(b) a representation inferred from conduct; and

(c) a representation not intended by its maker to be communicated to or seen by another person.