Queensland Numbered Acts

MAJOR EVENTS ACT 2014 No. 60 - SECT 18

(1) A person must not enter or exit a major event area except through an entrance or exit designated by the major event organiser.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(2) A person must not enter, or remain in, a major event area unless—

(a) if the major event organiser is charging an entry fee for the period the person remains in the major event area—the person pays the entry fee; or

(b) the person is authorised, in writing, by the major event organiser, whether under an occupant's pass or otherwise; or

(c) the person is authorised, in writing, by Stadiums Queensland, but only to the extent the major event area is major sports facility land.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(3) A person who appears to be drunk or adversely affected by a drug must not enter a major event area.

Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.

(4) A person does not contravene subsection (1), (2) or (3) if the person has a reasonable excuse.

(5) An authorised person may ask a person entering a major event area to consent to all or any of the following—

(a) the use of an electronic detection device, including a metal detector, on the person or the person's possessions;

(b) the authorised person inspecting the person's belongings;

(c) the removal of 1 or more outer garments worn by the person as specified by the authorised person and the inspection of the garments by the authorised person;

(d) the removal of 1 or more articles from the person's clothing and the inspection of the articles by the authorised person;

(e) the inspection of an article in the person's possession by the authorised person;

(f) if the person is entering the major event area in a vehicle—

(i) inspection of the vehicle, or part of it, by the authorised person; and

(ii) the removal of an article from the vehicle and the inspection of the article by the authorised person.

(6) An authorised person who is a police officer may frisk search a person entering the major event area if the officer—

(a) asks for and receives the person's consent to be frisk searched; and

(b) frisk searches the person under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, section 624.

(7) A person must not be asked to consent under subsection (5) or (6) unless the authorised person or police officer making the request—

(a) reasonably considers it necessary to make the request; and

(b) tells the person the reason for making the request.

(8) For subsection (5), an authorised person may touch a garment the person entering the major event area is wearing only if the authorised person is the same gender as the person.

(9) In this section—

belongings see the State Buildings Protective Security Act 1983, section 4A.

frisk search see the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000, schedule 6.

inspect, an article, includes handle the article, open it and examine its contents.