Queensland Consolidated Acts

CHILD PROTECTION (OFFENDER REPORTING AND OFFENDER PROHIBITION ORDER) ACT 2004 - SECT 60

60 Power of detention to enable notice to be given

(1) This section applies if there are reasonable grounds to suspect that—

(a) a person is a reportable offender; and

(b) the person has not been given notice, or is otherwise unaware, of the person’s reporting obligations.

(2) A police officer may detain the person if it is reasonably necessary to do so—

(a) to enable a decision to be made about—

(i) whether or not the person is a reportable offender; or

(ii) if the person is a reportable offender—whether or not the person has been given notice, or is aware, of the person’s reporting obligations; or

(b) to enable the person to be given notice of those obligations if the person is not aware of them.

(3) When detaining the person, the police officer must tell the person—

(a) why the person is being detained; and

(b) that the detention is authorised under this Act; and

(c) that the person will be released immediately after the reasons for the detention are satisfied.

(4) The detained person—

(a) may be taken to the nearest police station; and

(b) must—

(i) not be held for longer than is reasonably necessary to enable the purpose of the detention to be satisfied; and

(ii) not be held only because the person has refused to sign an acknowledgement that the person has been given notice of the person’s reporting obligations; and

(iii) be released immediately after the purpose of detention is satisfied.