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Persons assisting inspectors

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Part 9Securing compliance
Division 3Powers relating to entry
Subdivision 1General powers of entry

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.

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Section 166 — Persons assisting inspectors — Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Commonwealth) — Barrister AI