26KEntry without consent or warrant

26K Entry without consent or warrant S. 26K(1) amended by No. 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 150.4). (1) For the purpose of monitoring compliance with this Act or the regulations, an inspector may (with the assistance, if necessary, of another inspector or a police officer) do all or any of the following— (a) enter and search any premises at which an endorsed pawnbroker is carrying on business at any time that the premises are open for business or between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.; (b) seize or secure against interference anything that the Director or inspector believes on reasonable grounds to be connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations that is found on or in the premises; (c) inspect and make copies of or take extracts from any document kept on the premises. (2) An inspector must not enter or search any premises under subsection (1) unless, before that entry, the inspector has produced his or her identity card for inspection by the occupier of the premises. S. 26L inserted by No. 93/2001 s. 36.