Transport Infrastructure Act 1994

This subdivision applies to an authorised person who enters a place under subdivision 2.

However if, under section 475I(2), the authorised person enters a place to ask the occupier’s consent to enter a place, this subdivision applies to the authorised person only if the consent is given or the entry is otherwise authorised.

The authorised person may do any of the following—

search any part of the place;

inspect, measure, test, film, photograph, videotape or otherwise record an image of any part of the place or anything at the place;

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

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

take into or onto the place any equipment, materials or persons the authorised person reasonably requires for exercising a power under this division.

If the authorised person takes a sample or thing for analysis under subsection (3)(c), the authorised person must—

give a receipt for the sample or thing to the person in charge of the thing or place from which it was taken; and

for a sample or thing with an intrinsic value—at the end of 6 months after the sample or thing was taken, return it to the person who appears to be the owner of it or the person in charge of the thing or place from which it was taken.

However, if for any reason it is not practicable to comply with subsection (4)(a), the authorised person must leave the receipt at the place in a conspicuous position and in a reasonably secure way.