Fire Services Act 1990

This section applies to an investigation officer who enters a place.

However, if an investigation officer enters a place to get the occupier’s consent to enter a place, this section applies to the officer only if the consent is given or the entry is otherwise authorised.

For monitoring and enforcing compliance with this part or section 150B, the investigation officer may—

copy a document at the place or take the document to another place to copy it; or

require a person at the place, to give the officer reasonable help to exercise the officer’s powers under paragraph (a); or

require a person at the place, to answer questions by the officer to help the officer ascertain whether the person, or another person at the place, committed an offence against this Act.

When making a requirement mentioned in subsection (3)(b) or (c), the investigation officer must warn the person it is an offence to fail to comply with the requirement, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

If an investigation officer takes a document from a place to copy it, the document must be copied as soon as practicable and returned to the place.

To remove any doubt, it is declared that this section applies to an investigation officer who is also an authorised fire officer and enters a place for the purpose of exercising a power under part 1.

Also, the powers an investigation officer mentioned in subsection (6) has under this section are in addition to, and do not limit, any powers the officer may have under part 1.