115APersons assisting authorised officers

115A Persons assisting authorised officers

115A Persons assisting authorised officers

(1) A person (the assistant), including an interpreter, may accompany an authorised officer entering a premises under this Division to assist the authorised officer if the authorised officer considers the assistance is necessary.

(2) The assistant—

(a) may do the things at the place and in the manner that the authorised officer requires to assist the authorised officer to exercise the officer’s functions under this Division, but

(b) must not do anything that the authorised officer does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant.

(3) Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all purposes to have been done by the authorised officer.

s 115A: Ins 2017 No 61, Sch 3 [6].