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Public Health Act 2005
sec.347General powers after entering places
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### sec.347 General powers after entering places
This section applies to an emergency officer who enters a place to respond to a declared public health emergency.
The emergency officer may—
search any part of the place; or
inspect, measure, test, photograph or film any part of the place or anything at the place; or
take a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place for analysis or testing; or
copy a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy it; or
take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the emergency officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this chapter; or
require a person at the place to give the emergency officer reasonable help to exercise the emergency officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (e) .
When making a requirement mentioned in subsection (2) (f) the emergency officer must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
If an emergency officer takes a document from a place to copy it, the document must be copied as soon as practicable and returned to the place.
(sec.347-ssec.1) This section applies to an emergency officer who enters a place to respond to a declared public health emergency.
(sec.347-ssec.2) The emergency officer may— search any part of the place; or inspect, measure, test, photograph or film any part of the place or anything at the place; or take a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place for analysis or testing; or copy a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy it; or take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the emergency officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this chapter; or require a person at the place to give the emergency officer reasonable help to exercise the emergency officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (e) .
(sec.347-ssec.3) When making a requirement mentioned in subsection (2) (f) the emergency officer must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.
(sec.347-ssec.4) If an emergency officer takes a document from a place to copy it, the document must be copied as soon as practicable and returned to the place.
- (a) search any part of the place; or
- (b) inspect, measure, test, photograph or film any part of the place or anything at the place; or
- (c) take a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place for analysis or testing; or
- (d) copy a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy it; or
- (e) take into or onto the place any persons, equipment and materials the emergency officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this chapter; or
- (f) require a person at the place to give the emergency officer reasonable help to exercise the emergency officer’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (e) .