230XUse of equipment to examine or process things

230X Use of equipment to examine or process things (1) A port safety officer may bring on to any premises or vessel at which the port safety officer is exercising a power under Division 2 or Division 3 any equipment reasonably necessary for the examination or processing of things found at the premises or on the vessel in order to determine whether they are things that may be seized. (2) The port safety officer may operate equipment already at the premises to carry out the examination or processing of a thing found at the premises in order to determine whether it is a thing that may be seized, if the port safety officer believes on reasonable grounds that— (a) the equipment is suitable for the examination or processing; and (b) the examination or processing can be carried out without damage to the equipment or the thing. S. 230Y inserted by No. 93/2009 s. 15.