sec.62KGeneral powers

### sec.62K General powers The investigator may do any of the following (each a general power )— search any part of the place; inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place; take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place; take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place, or take the document to another place to copy; take into or onto the place any person, equipment and materials the investigator reasonably requires for exercising a power under this division; remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry. The investigator may take a necessary step to allow the exercise of a general power. If the investigator takes a document from the place to copy it, the investigator must copy the document and return it to the place as soon as practicable. If the investigator takes from the place an article or device reasonably capable of producing a document from an electronic document to produce the document, the investigator must produce the document and return the article or device to the place as soon as practicable. In this section— examine includes analyse, test, account, measure, weigh, grade, gauge and identify. film includes photograph, videotape and record an image in an other way. inspect , a thing, includes open the thing and examine its contents. s 62K ins 2020 No. 24 s 99 (sec.62K-ssec.1) The investigator may do any of the following (each a general power )— search any part of the place; inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place; take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place; take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place, or take the document to another place to copy; take into or onto the place any person, equipment and materials the investigator reasonably requires for exercising a power under this division; remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry. (sec.62K-ssec.2) The investigator may take a necessary step to allow the exercise of a general power. (sec.62K-ssec.3) If the investigator takes a document from the place to copy it, the investigator must copy the document and return it to the place as soon as practicable. (sec.62K-ssec.4) If the investigator takes from the place an article or device reasonably capable of producing a document from an electronic document to produce the document, the investigator must produce the document and return the article or device to the place as soon as practicable. (sec.62K-ssec.5) In this section— examine includes analyse, test, account, measure, weigh, grade, gauge and identify. film includes photograph, videotape and record an image in an other way. inspect , a thing, includes open the thing and examine its contents. - (a) search any part of the place; - (b) inspect, examine or film any part of the place or anything at the place; - (c) take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place; - (d) take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place, or take the document to another place to copy; - (e) take into or onto the place any person, equipment and materials the investigator reasonably requires for exercising a power under this division; - (f) remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry.