Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000

For the purposes of this Part, the following are the monitoring powers that an authorised officer may exercise in relation to premises under section 110:

the power to search the premises for any thing on the premises that may relate to the creation or transfer of certificates or relevant acquisitions of electricity;

the power to examine any activity conducted on the premises that may relate to information provided for the purposes of this Act or the regulations;

the power to examine any thing on the premises that may relate to information provided for the purposes of this Act or the regulations;

the power to take photographs or make video or audio recordings or sketches on the premises of any such activity or thing;

the power to inspect any document on the premises that may relate to information provided for the purposes of this Act or the regulations;

the power to take extracts from, or make copies of, any such document;

the power to take onto the premises such equipment and materials as the authorised officer requires for the purpose of exercising powers in relation to the premises;

the power to secure a thing that:

is found during the exercise of monitoring powers on the premises; and

an authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds affords evidence of the commission of an offence against this Act or the Crimes Act 1914, or of the contravention of a civil penalty provision; and

the authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds would be lost, destroyed or tampered with before a warrant can be obtained;

the powers in subsections (2) and (3).

For the purposes of this Part, monitoring powers include the power to operate equipment at premises to see whether:

the equipment; or

a disk, tape or other storage device that:

is at the premises; and

can be used with the equipment or is associated with it;

For the purposes of this Part, monitoring powers include the following powers in relation to information described in subsection (2) found in the exercise of the power under that subsection:

the power to operate facilities at the premises to put the information in documentary form and copy the documents so produced;

the power to operate facilities at the premises to transfer the information to a disk, tape or other storage device that:

is brought to the premises for the exercise of the power; or

is at the premises and the use of which for the purpose has been agreed in writing by the occupier of the premises;

the power to remove from the premises a disk, tape or other storage device to which the information has been transferred in exercise of the power under paragraph (b).