Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies in relation to a reportable offender if—

in the last 3 months, the reportable offender was—

released from government detention; or

sentenced to a supervision order; or

the reportable offender has been convicted of a device inspection offence; or

a device inspection order is made for the reportable offender under section 21C.

A police officer may—

require the reportable offender to produce, or otherwise make available, for inspection each digital device in the reportable offender’s possession; and

inspect a digital device in the reportable offender’s possession.

However, a police officer may not carry out an inspection in relation to a reportable offender in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1)(b)—

unless the offender has been given a notice under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender Prohibition Order) Act 2004, section 68(4); or

if at least 4 inspections have been carried out under this section in relation to the offender within the previous 12 months.

For subsection (3)(b), each occasion on which a police officer inspects 1 or more digital devices counts as 1 inspection.

In this section—device inspection offence means—

an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code—

an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code if the offence was committed using an electronic communication network or digital device—

an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code (Cwlth)—

an offence against any of the following provisions of the Criminal Code (Cwlth) if the offence was committed using an electronic communication network or digital device—

an offence against either of the following provisions of the Criminal Code (Cwlth), as in force from time to time before being repealed by the Combatting Child Sexual Exploitation Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (Cwlth)—

an offence against a law of a foreign jurisdiction that, if it had been committed in Queensland, would have constituted an offence mentioned in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e).