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Work Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) 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 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.