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Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999
32NDealing with seized things
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#### 32N Dealing with seized things
32N Dealing with seized things
> > (1) An authorised officer who seizes any thing under this Division on any premises must issue the person apparently in charge of the premises with a written receipt for the thing seized.
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> > (2) An authorised officer may retain any thing seized under this Division until the completion of proceedings (including proceedings on appeal) in which it may be evidence.
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> > (3) A record may only be retained under subsection (2) if the person from whom the record was seized is provided, within a reasonable time after the seizure, with a copy of the record certified by the authorised officer as a true copy. The copy is, as evidence, of equal validity to the record of which it is certified to be a copy.
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> > (4) Subsection (2) ceases to have effect in relation to anything seized if, on the application of a person aggrieved by the seizure, the court in which proceedings referred to in that subsection are commenced so orders.
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> **s 32N:** Ins 2018 No 78, Sch 1\[34\].
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> **s 32N:** Ins 2018 No 78, Sch 1\[34\].