13Persons assisting transport safety officers

13 Persons assisting transport safety officers

S. 13(1) amended by No. 41/2019 s. 27(1).

(1) A person (the assistant), including an interpreter, may accompany a transport safety officer entering bus premises or marine premises or other place or bus or boarding a vessel under this Part to assist the officer if the officer considers the assistance necessary.

(2) The assistant—

S. 13(2)(a) amended by No. 41/2019 s. 27(2).

(a) may do such things at the premises or place or on the bus or vessel and in such manner as the transport safety officer reasonably requires to assist the officer in the exercise of his or her powers under this Act or a transport safety law; but

(b) must not do anything that the officer does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant.

(3) Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all purposes to have been done by the transport safety officer.