Queensland Numbered Acts

HEALTH TRANSPARENCY ACT 2019 - SECT 77

77 Amendment of s 308 (Powers of proper officer of a court)

(1) Section 308 (2) (a) and (b) —
omit, insert—

(a) the chief executive to provide corrective services officers; or

(b) the commissioner to provide police officers or, to the extent the commissioner considers it appropriate, watch-house officers.

(2) Section 308 —
insert—

(6) In helping the proper officer of the court, a watch-house officer—

(a) is subject to any directions of the commissioner; and

(b) may—

(i) exercise a power of a watch-house officer under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 , section 648, 649 or 652 as if the prisoner of the court or person mentioned in subsection (1) were in custody at a watch-house; and

(ii) use reasonably necessary force under the Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 , section 653 for transferring or escorting the prisoner of the court or person mentioned in subsection (1) to or from a place mentioned in that section as if the prisoner or person were in custody and the transfer or escort were authorised by a watch-house manager.

(7) Subsection (6)(b) does not limit the help the watch-house officer may give to the proper officer of the court to perform the proper officer’s functions.

(8) In this section—

"watch-house officer" see the Police Service Administration Act 1990 , section 1.4.