Lotteries Act 1997

This section applies to an inspector who enters a place.

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

For monitoring or enforcing compliance with this Act, the inspector may—

search any part of the place; or

inspect, measure, test, photograph or film any part of the place or anything at the place; or

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

copy a document at the place; or

access, electronically or in some other way, a system used at the place for conducting a lottery or other gaming scheme or for administrative purposes related to the conduct of a lottery or other gaming scheme; or

take into or onto the place any person, equipment and materials the inspector reasonably requires for exercising a power under this part; or

require the occupier of the place, or a person at the place, to give the inspector reasonable help to exercise the inspector’s powers under paragraphs (a) to (f); or

require the occupier of the place, or a person at the place, to give the inspector information to help the inspector ascertain whether this Act is being complied with.

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