500General powers after entering a place

500 General powers after entering a place

500 General powers after entering a place

(1) If an authorised officer enters a place under section 497(1), the officer may, for investigation purposes, do any of the following (each a general power)—

(a) search any part of the place or a vehicle at the place, including—

(i) searching any part of the place or a vehicle at the place for evidence of an offence against this Law; and

(ii) searching any part of the place or a vehicle at the place for a document, device or other thing relating to a heavy vehicle or any part of its equipment or load;

(b) inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place;

(c) take a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place for examination;

(d) place an identifying mark in or on anything at the place;

(e) take an extract from a document, device or other thing at the place, including, for example—

(i) by taking a copy of, or an extract from, a readout or other data obtained from a device or other thing at the place; or

(ii) by accessing and downloading information from a device or other thing at the place;

Example of device or other thing—

an intelligent transport system

(f) copy a document at the place, or take a document at the place to another place to copy it;

Examples of documents for the purposes of paragraphs (e) and (f)—

• a document required to be kept at the place under this Law or a heavy vehicle accreditation

• transport documentation

• journey documentation

• a document the authorised officer reasonably believes provides, or may provide on further inspection, evidence of an offence against this Law

(g) produce an image or writing at the place from an electronic document at the place or, if it is not practicable to produce the image or writing at the place, take a thing containing the electronic document to another place to produce the image or writing;