30Dealing with seized things

30 Dealing with seized things

30 Dealing with seized things

(1) If an authorised officer seizes anything under section 27 on any premises, the authorised officer must issue the person apparently in charge of the premises with a written receipt for the thing seized.

(2) An authorised officer may retain anything seized under section 27 until the completion of any proceedings (including proceedings on appeal) in which it may be evidence.

(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 document of which it is certified to be a copy.

(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.

(5) For the removal of any doubt, anything seized under section 27 may be used as evidence in proceedings for an offence under this or any other Act.

s 30: Am 2022 No 59, Sch 1.20[8].