49IPersons assisting the Chief Investigator

49I Persons assisting the Chief Investigator

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

(2) The assistant—

(a) may do such things at the premises or place or on the rolling stock, bus or vessel and in such manner as the Chief Investigator reasonably requires to assist the Chief Investigator in the exercise of the Chief Investigator's powers under this Part; but

(b) must not do anything that the Chief Investigator 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 Chief Investigator.

S. 49J inserted by No. 25/2025 s. 70.