Local Government Act 2009

The investigator 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 or anything at 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 investigator reasonably requires for exercising the investigator’s powers under this chapter;

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

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

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

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

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