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Guide, Hearing and Assistance Dogs Act 2009
sec.85General powers after entering a place
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### sec.85 General powers after entering a place
This section applies to an authorised officer who enters a place under section 83 (1) (a) , (c) or (d) .
However, if the authorised officer enters under section 83 (1) (a) or (d) , the powers under this section are subject to any conditions of the consent or terms of the warrant.
For investigating an offence against this Act, the authorised officer may do any of the following—
search any part of the place;
inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place;
copy a document at the place;
confer alone with a person at the place;
require a person at the place to give the authorised officer reasonable help to exercise the authorised officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (d) ;
require a person at the place to answer questions by the authorised officer to help the authorised officer ascertain whether this Act is being or has been complied with.
When making a requirement mentioned in subsection (3) (e) or (f) , the authorised officer must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
In this section—
examine includes analyse, test, account, measure, weigh, grade, gauge and identify.
film includes photograph, videotape and record an image in another way.
inspect , a thing, includes open the thing and examine its contents.
s 85 amd 2015 No. 21 s 40
(sec.85-ssec.1) This section applies to an authorised officer who enters a place under section 83 (1) (a) , (c) or (d) .
(sec.85-ssec.2) However, if the authorised officer enters under section 83 (1) (a) or (d) , the powers under this section are subject to any conditions of the consent or terms of the warrant.
(sec.85-ssec.3) For investigating an offence against this Act, the authorised officer may do any of the following— search any part of the place; inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place; copy a document at the place; confer alone with a person at the place; require a person at the place to give the authorised officer reasonable help to exercise the authorised officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (d) ; require a person at the place to answer questions by the authorised officer to help the authorised officer ascertain whether this Act is being or has been complied with.
(sec.85-ssec.4) When making a requirement mentioned in subsection (3) (e) or (f) , the authorised officer must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(sec.85-ssec.5) In this section— examine includes analyse, test, account, measure, weigh, grade, gauge and identify. film includes photograph, videotape and record an image in another way. inspect , a thing, includes open the thing and examine its contents.
- (a) search any part of the place;
- (b) inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place;
- (c) copy a document at the place;
- (d) confer alone with a person at the place;
- (e) require a person at the place to give the authorised officer reasonable help to exercise the authorised officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (d) ;
- (f) require a person at the place to answer questions by the authorised officer to help the authorised officer ascertain whether this Act is being or has been complied with.