Justices Act 1886
LegislationReferenced in 19 bills
Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2020
This bill strengthens protections for subcontractors in the building industry who often go unpaid. It extends Project Bank Account requirements to more contracts, gives new tools to recover unpaid money, improves QBCC enforcement powers, and strengthens regulation of building certifiers, architects and engineers.
Electoral and Other Legislation (Accountability, Integrity and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2019
This bill reforms Queensland's electoral laws and government integrity rules. It caps political donations and campaign spending, creates new criminal offences for Ministers and councillors who dishonestly hide conflicts of interest, restricts election signage near polling booths, and increases public funding for political parties to reduce reliance on private donations.
Criminal Code (Child Sexual Offences Reform) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019
This bill implements recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It creates new offences requiring adults to report child sexual abuse to police (including information from religious confession), makes it a crime to fail to protect children in institutional settings, criminalises child-like sex dolls, and enables prosecution of historical abuse that was previously time-barred.
Police Service Administration and Other Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2022
This bill modernises Queensland's police, fire and emergency services legislation. It streamlines police discipline processes, automatically dismisses officers sentenced to imprisonment, strengthens protections for confidential police information, and updates fire safety and emergency response provisions.
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.
Queensland Institute of Medical Research Bill 2025
This bill replaces the nearly 80-year-old legislation governing the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), one of Australia's leading medical research organisations. It modernises governance arrangements, introduces integrity safeguards for Council members, and creates a framework for rewarding researchers when their work is commercialised.
Criminal Justice Legislation (Sexual Violence and Other Matters) Amendment Bill 2024
This bill implements major reforms to Queensland's criminal justice system to better support victim-survivors of sexual violence and domestic violence. It creates new protections for young people from adults in positions of trust, makes court processes less traumatic for victims, and updates evidence rules to allow juries to hear about patterns of offending behaviour.
Police Legislation (Efficiencies and Effectiveness) Amendment Bill 2021
This bill modernises Queensland Police Service operations by cutting red tape and updating procedures. It allows senior police officers to witness certain legal documents instead of requiring Justices of the Peace, expands court powers to order access to seized phones and computers, and updates drug testing procedures for officers involved in serious incidents.
Evidence and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
This bill makes several changes to Queensland's evidence and court procedures. It introduces shield laws to protect journalists' confidential sources, allows domestic violence victims to use police-recorded video statements as their main evidence, creates new procedures for examining deceased persons' remains in criminal cases, and makes administrative updates to magistrate transfers and computer warrants.
Energy Roadmap Amendment Bill 2025
This bill makes major changes to Queensland's energy policy by repealing legislated renewable energy targets and shifting to a 'market-driven' approach. It renames the Energy (Renewable Transformation and Jobs) Act to the Energy (Infrastructure Facilitation) Act, abolishes three statutory advisory bodies, changes public ownership rules, and creates a new framework for the CopperString transmission project connecting North and North West Queensland to the national grid.
Police Powers and Responsibilities and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021
This bill is a package of law and order reforms covering knife crime, parole restrictions for the worst murderers, stronger 'No Body, No Parole' laws, protection for police animals, and updated child sex offender monitoring. It aims to improve public safety while reducing trauma for victims' families through the parole process.
Local Government (Councillor Complaints) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill overhauls the system for handling complaints about councillor conduct in Queensland. It creates an Independent Assessor to investigate complaints, replacing the previous system where council CEOs had conflicts of interest in assessing complaints against their own councillors. A new Councillor Conduct Tribunal will hear serious misconduct matters, with appeal rights to QCAT.
Domestic and Family Violence Protection (Combating Coercive Control) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill implements the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce's recommendations to combat coercive control in domestic and family violence situations. It modernises stalking laws to cover technology-facilitated abuse, requires courts to identify the person most in need of protection in disputed cases, and improves how evidence of domestic violence patterns is recognised in criminal proceedings.
Tobacco and Other Smoking Products (Vaping) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill cracks down on the illegal vape and tobacco trade in Queensland by creating new offences, increasing penalties to up to 2 years imprisonment, and giving authorities power to close non-compliant businesses. It responds to a public health crisis with vaping among 12-17 year olds quadrupling since 2017, and supports the Commonwealth's national vaping ban.
Police Powers and Responsibilities and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill amends police powers and corrective services legislation across seven distinct policy areas. It creates new search powers for high-risk missing person investigations, expands crime scene powers, allows court orders to unlock seized electronic devices, strengthens evade police investigations, adds Commonwealth child sex offences to reportable offender laws, streamlines Parole Board Queensland processes, and reduces administrative requirements for court proceedings.
Public Records Bill 2023
This bill replaces Queensland's 20-year-old public records law to bring it into the digital age. It modernises how government records are defined, managed, and accessed, while formally recognising the importance of public records for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and creating new advisory bodies to ensure their interests are considered.
Criminal Law (Coercive Control and Affirmative Consent) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill implements major reforms to Queensland's laws on domestic and family violence and sexual violence, following recommendations from the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce. It creates a new criminal offence of coercive control (carrying up to 14 years imprisonment), introduces affirmative consent laws requiring active agreement to sexual activity, specifically criminalises 'stealthing', and establishes a diversion scheme for first-time DVO offenders.
Crime and Corruption (Reporting) Amendment Bill 2024
This bill gives the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) clear legal power to publicly report on corruption investigations and make public statements. It responds to a 2023 High Court decision that found the CCC had been publishing reports without proper legal authority. The bill implements recommendations from an independent review to balance government transparency with protections for individuals who are investigated.
Heavy Vehicle National Law Amendment Bill 2018
This bill strengthens the national framework for regulating heavy vehicles (trucks and buses over 4.5 tonnes) by giving enforcement officers better investigation powers, allowing certain high-performance trucks easier road access, and streamlining court processes for driver fatigue offences.