Seizures in emergency situations
56 Seizures in emergency situations
If, while exercising powers at or on a launch facility or in or on an aircraft, the Launch Safety Officer suspects, on reasonable grounds, that:
a thing relevant to an offence against this Act is at or on the facility or is in or on the aircraft; and
because the circumstances are so serious and urgent, it is necessary to:
search the facility or aircraft, and any receptacle at or on the facility or in or on the aircraft, for the thing; or
seize the thing;
to stop the thing from being concealed, lost or destroyed;
the Launch Safety Officer may do so.
The Launch Safety Officer’s functions and powers do not entitle him or her to seize anything otherwise than in accordance with this section.
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