Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 169

169 What arrest warrant authorises

(1) The arrest warrant authorises any authorised commission officer or police officer (
"authorised officer" ) to whom it is addressed to enter a place, using the force reasonably necessary, and to stay for a reasonable time on the place to apprehend the person subject to the warrant.

(2) The person apprehended—

(a) must be brought immediately before a commission hearing; and

(b) may be detained in custody until excused from attendance at the hearing by the presiding officer at the hearing.

(3) The Bail Act 1980 applies to a person taken into custody under an arrest warrant in the same way it applies to a person in custody charged with an offence.

(4) The arrest warrant may be executed by any authorised officer to whom it is addressed.

(5) An authorised officer executing the arrest warrant may use the force that is reasonably necessary, including force to enter premises, to execute the warrant.

(6) However, before the authorised officer uses force that may cause damage to a place to gain entry to the place, the authorised officer must, if reasonably practicable—

(a) ask the occupier of the place to allow the authorised officer to enter the place; and

(b) give the occupier a reasonable opportunity to allow the entry.