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National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
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#### 165 Persons to deliver up fauna etc when required
165 Persons to deliver up fauna etc when required
> > (1) Where an authorised officer suspects on reasonable grounds any person to be committing an offence against any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations, he or she may, on production of the prescribed evidence of his or her authority, require that person to deliver up—
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> > > (a) any animal, native plant, Aboriginal object (not being real property) or article in that person’s possession, or which it is within that person’s power to deliver up, in respect of which the suspected offence is being committed or which is being used in connection with the suspected offence, or
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> > > (b) any books, papers or records in that person’s possession, or which it is within that person’s power to deliver up, relating to the suspected offence.
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> > (2) Any such person after being so required shall not fail to deliver up forthwith any animal, native plant, Aboriginal object (not being real property), article, books, papers or records to the Secretary or person requiring him or her so to do.
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> **s 165:** Am 1983 No 183, Sch 5 (13); 1986 No 218, Sch 28, Part 1 (8); 1989 No 84, Sch 1 (13); 2001 No 130, Sch 1 \[167\]; 2004 No 88, Sch 3.1 \[14\].