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Criminal Property Forfeiture Act 2002
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36 Additional powers
(1) When a police officer exercises any of his or her powers under
section 33 or under a warrant under section 34, the member may
do any or all of the following:
(a) seize and detain any documents found in the course of
exercising those powers if there are reasonable grounds for
suspecting that they are property-tracking documents;
(b) take extracts from or make copies of, or download or print out,
any property-tracking documents found in the course of
exercising those powers;
(c) require a person who has control of any property-tracking
documents found in the course of exercising those powers to
make copies of, or download or print out, any property-
tracking documents found in the course of exercising those
powers;
(d) require a person to give to the member any information within
the person's knowledge or control that is relevant to locating
property that is reasonably suspected of being liable to
forfeiture under this Act;
(e) require a person to give to the member any information within
the person's knowledge or control that is relevant to
determining whether or not property is liable to forfeiture under
this Act;
(f) require a person to give the member, or arrange for the
member to be given, any translation, codes, passwords or
other information necessary to gain access to or to interpret
and understand any property-tracking documents or
information located or obtained in the course of exercising the
member's powers under the warrant.
(2) A person who fails to comply with a requirement under
subsection (1) commits an offence.
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(3) Without limiting subsection (2), a person fails to comply with a
requirement under subsection (1) if the person:
(a) does not disclose material information of which the person had
knowledge, or gives false information or a false document, in
purported compliance with the requirement; and
(b) was aware, or could reasonably have been expected to have
been aware, that the information was material or that the
information or document was false.
(4) A person is not excused from complying with a requirement under
subsection (1) on the grounds that complying with it would tend to
incriminate the person or expose him or her to a penalty, but any
information given in compliance with the requirement is not
admissible in evidence in proceedings against the person for any
offence except an offence against subsection (2).