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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011
165General powers on entry
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165 General powers on entry
(1) An inspector who enters a workplace under section 163 may do all
or any of the following:
(a) inspect, examine and make inquiries at the workplace;
(b) inspect and examine anything (including a document) at the
(c) bring to the workplace and use any equipment or materials
that may be required;
(d) take measurements, conduct tests and make sketches or
recordings (including photographs, films, audio, video, digital
or other recordings);
(e) take and remove for analysis a sample of any substance or
thing without paying for it;
(f) require a person at the workplace to give the inspector
reasonable help to exercise the inspector's powers under
paragraphs (a) to (e);
(g) exercise any compliance power or other power that is
reasonably necessary to be exercised by the inspector for the
purposes of this Act.
(2) A person required to give reasonable help under subsection (1)(f)
must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with
the requirement.
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(3) Subsection (2) places an evidential burden on the accused to show