230PPower to enter and inspect vessels

230P Power to enter and inspect vessels (1) For the purpose of determining whether a hazardous port activity provision is being complied with, a port safety officer may enter a vessel that is in port of Melbourne waters. (2) Without limiting subsection (1), a port safety officer who enters a vessel under subsection (1) may, for the purpose set out in that subsection, do any one or more of the following— (a) inspect the vessel; or (b) seize anything found on the vessel that the port safety officer believes on reasonable grounds to be connected with a contravention of a hazardous port activity provision; or (c) take samples, photographs or film, videotape or otherwise record images or record sound in connection with the inspection; or (d) search for and inspect relevant documents; or (e) require any person in or on the vessel to produce to the port safety officer any document that is required to be kept for the purpose set out in subsection (1) and that is located in or on the vessel and that is in the person's custody or possession or under the person's control; or (f) make copies of, or take extracts from, any document that is required to be kept for the purpose set out in subsection (1) and that is kept in or on the vessel; or (g) exercise any other power under this Act conferred on the port safety officer for those purposes. (3) This section does not authorise the use of force, but the port safety officer may open unlocked doors, panels, objects or other things, or open unlocked places. S. 230Q inserted by No. 93/2009 s. 15.