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Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003
sec.520Persons assisting authorised persons
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### sec.520 Persons assisting authorised persons
A person (the assistant ), including an interpreter, may accompany an authorised person entering a place under section 518 to assist the authorised person if the authorised person considers the assistance is necessary.
The assistant—
may do the things at the place, and in the way, that the authorised person reasonably requires to assist the authorised person to exercise the authorised person’s powers under this part; but
must not do anything that the authorised person does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant.
Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all purposes to have been done by the authorised person.
s 520 sub 2013 No. 52 s 94
(sec.520-ssec.1) A person (the assistant ), including an interpreter, may accompany an authorised person entering a place under section 518 to assist the authorised person if the authorised person considers the assistance is necessary.
(sec.520-ssec.2) The assistant— may do the things at the place, and in the way, that the authorised person reasonably requires to assist the authorised person to exercise the authorised person’s powers under this part; but must not do anything that the authorised person does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant.
(sec.520-ssec.3) Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all purposes to have been done by the authorised person.
- (a) may do the things at the place, and in the way, that the authorised person reasonably requires to assist the authorised person to exercise the authorised person’s powers under this part; but
- (b) must not do anything that the authorised person does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant.