Access to things seized
168 Access to things seized
This section applies to a document or anything else seized under this chapter.
If asked by a person who would be entitled to inspect the thing if it were not seized under this chapter, an inspector must allow the person, at any reasonable time—
for a document—to inspect it, take extracts from it or make copies of it; and
for anything else—to inspect it.
This section does not apply to—
a thing seized under section 152 (4) (which is about the seizure of a thing that poses a risk to the health or safety of people or of damage to property or the environment); or
a thing seized under section 163 (Use of electronic equipment at premises); or
a thing or information if possession of it by the person otherwise entitled to inspect it would be an offence.
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