sec.200SGeneral powers

sec.200S General powers

The authorised officer may do any of the following (each a general power )— search any part of the place; inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place; take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place; place an identifying mark in or on anything at the place; take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy; produce an image or writing at the place from an electronic document or, to the extent it is not practicable, take a thing containing an electronic document to another place to produce an image or writing; take to, into or onto the place and use any person, equipment and materials the authorised officer reasonably requires for exercising the officer’s powers under this subdivision; confer alone with a person at the place; require a person at the place to answer questions by the authorised officer to help the authorised officer ascertain whether a provision of this Act, other than an excluded provision, is being or has been complied with; remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry. The authorised officer may take a necessary step to allow the exercise of a general power. If the authorised officer takes a document from the place to copy it, the authorised officer must copy the document and return it to the place as soon as practicable. If the authorised officer takes from the place an article or device reasonably capable of producing a document from an electronic document to produce the document, the authorised officer must produce the document and return the article or device to the place as soon as practicable. In this section— examine includes analyse, test, account, measure, weigh, grade, gauge and identify. s 200S ins 2016 No. 9 s 44 amd 2019 No. 19 s 32 (sec.200S-ssec.1) The authorised officer may do any of the following (each a general power )— search any part of the place; inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place; take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place; place an identifying mark in or on anything at the place; take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy; produce an image or writing at the place from an electronic document or, to the extent it is not practicable, take a thing containing an electronic document to another place to produce an image or writing; take to, into or onto the place and use any person, equipment and materials the authorised officer reasonably requires for exercising the officer’s powers under this subdivision; confer alone with a person at the place; require a person at the place to answer questions by the authorised officer to help the authorised officer ascertain whether a provision of this Act, other than an excluded provision, is being or has been complied with; remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry. (sec.200S-ssec.2) The authorised officer may take a necessary step to allow the exercise of a general power. (sec.200S-ssec.3) If the authorised officer takes a document from the place to copy it, the authorised officer must copy the document and return it to the place as soon as practicable. (sec.200S-ssec.4) If the authorised officer takes from the place an article or device reasonably capable of producing a document from an electronic document to produce the document, the authorised officer must produce the document and return the article or device to the place as soon as practicable. (sec.200S-ssec.5) In this section— examine includes analyse, test, account, measure, weigh, grade, gauge and identify.