Summary Offences Act 2005
LegislationReferenced in 11 bills
Work Health and Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill strengthens workplace health and safety laws by giving workers and their representatives more power to address unsafe conditions, making it easier to prosecute the most serious safety breaches, and stopping companies from insuring against safety fines. It implements recommendations from two major reviews of Queensland's work health and safety system.
Police Powers and Responsibilities and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill expands police powers in four areas: longer monitoring of child sex offenders, new tools to investigate cybercrime, allowing civilians to assist in undercover operations, and creating offences targeting hooning gatherings and their spectators.
Criminal Code (Serious Vilification and Hate Crimes) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill strengthens Queensland's hate crime laws by increasing penalties for serious vilification, creating aggravated offences for hate-motivated crimes, and banning the public display of symbols like Nazi imagery. It implements recommendations from a parliamentary inquiry into serious vilification and hate crimes.
Summary Offences (Prevention of Knife Crime) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill makes it illegal to sell knives, swords, machetes, axes, Gel Blasters and other dangerous items to anyone under 18. It also bans the sale of weapons marketed to glorify violence, such as 'zombie knives', and requires retailers to display warning signs and securely store certain items.
Agriculture and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill makes wide-ranging changes to Queensland's agricultural, biosecurity and animal welfare laws. Most notably, it doubles penalties for farm trespass, introduces biosecurity management plans that visitors must follow, and gives animal welfare inspectors new powers to help abandoned animals.
Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018
This bill decriminalises termination of pregnancy in Queensland, removing it from the Criminal Code and treating it as a health matter. It allows women to access terminations through registered medical practitioners up to 22 weeks gestation, with additional safeguards for later terminations, and creates protected zones around clinics.
Police Powers and Responsibilities and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill modernises Queensland law to recognise trans and gender diverse people in police and health search procedures, while also making changes to the parole system and prisoner safety assessments. It passed with amendment in 2024.
Summary Offences and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill creates new criminal offences for protesters who use 'dangerous attachment devices' - specialised equipment like steel tubes, concrete barrels, and tripods designed to make it difficult and dangerous for police to remove them. It was introduced in response to climate, mining, and animal welfare protests that caused significant disruptions, including a $1.3 million delay to coal trains at the Port of Brisbane.
Transport and Other Legislation (Road Safety, Technology and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2020
This bill introduces the Digital Licence App allowing Queenslanders to carry driver licences and photo ID on their smartphones, and extends automated camera enforcement to catch drivers using mobile phones and not wearing seatbelts. It also makes various technical improvements to transport legislation.
Tow Truck and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill reforms three distinct areas: it regulates tow truck operators who remove vehicles from private property (like shopping centres), ensures 17-year-old drivers remain accountable for serious driving offences, and reduces administration fees for motorists with multiple unpaid tolls. The private property towing reforms respond to community complaints about exploitative practices.
Queensland Community Safety Bill 2024
This bill implements a comprehensive package of community safety measures. It expands police powers to search for knives in shopping centres and on public transport, creates new firearm prohibition orders for high-risk individuals, increases penalties for dangerous driving and attacks on emergency workers, allows police to issue on-the-spot fines for low-range drink driving, and reforms youth justice detention transfers.