General powers after entering places
157 General powers after entering places
This section applies to an authorised officer who enters a place under section 150.
However, if an authorised officer enters a place to ask the occupier’s consent to enter premises, this section applies to the officer only if the consent is given or the entry is otherwise authorised.
For investigating and enforcing compliance with this Act, the officer may do all or any of the following—
search any part of the place;
inspect, measure, test, photograph or film any part of the place or anything at the place;
mark or seal a container or other thing at the place;
open a container if the officer considers it is necessary for exercising a power;
take a sample of, or from, anything at the place;
take an extract from, or copy, a document at the place;
take into, or onto, the place any person, equipment and materials the officer reasonably requires for exercising a power under this division.
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