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Work Health and Safety Act 2011
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166 Persons assisting inspectors
(1) A person (the assistant), including an interpreter, may accompany the
inspector entering a workplace under section 163 (Powers of entry)
to assist the inspector if the inspector considers the assistance is
necessary.
(2) The assistant—
(a) may do the things at the place and in the manner that the
inspector reasonably requires to assist the inspector to exercise
compliance powers; but
(b) must not do anything that the inspector 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 inspector.
Subdivision 9.3.2 Search warrants