Liquor Act 2019
244Seizing any thing related to forfeiture offence
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244 Seizing any thing related to forfeiture offence (1) If an inspector or a police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that a forfeiture offence was committed, is being committed or is likely to be committed, the inspector or officer may, without a warrant, seize any thing that the inspector or officer believes on reasonable grounds may be used as evidence in proceedings for prosecution of the forfeiture offence. (2) In the course of exercising the power in subsection (1), an inspector or a police officer may, without a warrant, seize any thing that the inspector or officer believes on reasonable grounds was used in the commission of the forfeiture offence, despite the following: (a) the thing having no evidentiary value in the prosecution of the offence; (b) the thing being the property of a someone other than a person suspected of committing the offence; (c) the thing being at risk of forfeiture to the Territory under Part 12; (d) the thing and the offence not being subject to the Criminal Property Forfeiture Act 2005.