Land Act 1994

The authorised officer may do any of the following (each a general power)—

search any part of the place;

inspect, examine or film any part of the place, anything at the place or the uses made of the place;

take for examination a thing, or a sample of or from a thing, at the place;

place an identifying mark in or on anything at the place;

take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place, or take the document to another place to copy;

produce an image or writing at the place from an electronic document or, to the extent it is not practicable, take a thing containing an electronic document to another place to produce an image or writing;

take to, into or onto the place and use any person, equipment and materials the authorised officer reasonably requires for exercising the authorised officer’s powers under this chapter;

remain at the place for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of the entry.

Also, if the place is lease land, licence land or permit land for agricultural, grazing or pastoral purposes, the authorised officer may do any of the following (also each a general power)—

establish 1 or more sites (each a monitoring site) on the land to monitor compliance with—

this Act; or

the lease, licence or permit; or

a land management agreement; or

a remedial action notice; or

a remedial action order; or

a compliance notice; or

a compliance order;

without limiting subsection (1)(d), place a marker to show where a monitoring site is;

install or place a device (a monitoring device) at a monitoring site to carry out the monitoring;

read a monitoring device;

check the accuracy of, or repair or replace, a monitoring device.

The authorised officer may take a necessary step to allow the exercise of a general power.

If the authorised officer takes a document from the place to copy it, the authorised officer must copy the document and return it to the place as soon as practicable.

If the authorised officer takes from the place an article or device reasonably capable of producing a document from an electronic document to produce the document, the authorised officer must produce the document and return the article or device to the place as soon as practicable.

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