37Production of records and other things

37 Production of records and other things

37 Production of records and other things

(1) A police officer who has lawfully entered any premises where the buying, selling or storage of wool, hides or skins is being carried on may require any person apparently in charge of the premises to do immediately any of the following—

(a) to produce for inspection any record required to be kept by the person or by the licensee under this Act,

(b) to identify and locate records kept by the person or the licensee that correspond to particular wool, hides or skins bought, sold or kept by the person or licensee,

(c) to identify and locate wool, hides or skins kept by the person or the licensee that correspond to particular records kept by the licensee,

(d) to reveal the whereabouts of any wool, hides or skins or records referred to in paragraph (b) or (c),

(e) in the case of premises used for a licensed business, to produce the licence or a copy of the licence.

(2) In the case of a record that is electronically stored, a provision of this section conferring power on a police officer to compel production of the record for inspection empowers the officer, for the purpose of exercising that power—

(a) to view the record and to copy or take extracts from it by electronic means, or

(b) to require that it be reproduced in hard copy, or copied on to computer diskette or reduced to some other portable form suitable for removal and capable of reproducing the record for viewing.

(3) A person must comply with a requirement made of the person under this section.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.