Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

In this section —

A wildlife officer may do one or more of the following —

for inspection purposes direct an occupier of a place or vehicle, or a person who is or appears to be in possession or control of a thing, to give to the wildlife officer, orally or in writing —

any information in the person’s possession or control as to the name and address of the owner of the place, vehicle or thing; and

any other information in the person’s possession or control that is relevant to an inspection;

for inspection purposes direct a person who is or appears to be in possession or control of an organism or potential carrier to give the wildlife officer any information in the person’s possession or control as to the name and address of any person from whom the organism or potential carrier or to whom a similar organism or potential carrier has been supplied;

for inspection purposes direct an occupier of a place or vehicle to answer questions;

for inspection purposes direct an occupier of a place or vehicle to produce a specified thing or a thing of a specified kind;

for inspection purposes direct an occupier of a place or vehicle to open or unlock any thing in or on the place or vehicle to which the wildlife officer requires access;

direct an occupier of a place or vehicle to give the wildlife officer a plan, or access to a plan, of the place or vehicle;

direct an occupier of a place or vehicle, or a person who is or appears to be in possession or control of a thing, to give the wildlife officer any assistance that the wildlife officer reasonably needs to carry out the wildlife officer’s functions in relation to the place, vehicle or thing;

direct an occupier of a vehicle to move the vehicle to a specified place for inspection or treatment;

direct a person who is or could be carrying an organism or potential carrier to go to a specified place for inspection or treatment;

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of a consignment of goods or a potential carrier to move the consignment or potential carrier to a specified place for inspection or treatment;

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of an organism to do anything necessary to identify the organism;

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of an animal to restrain, muster, round up, yard, draft or otherwise move or handle the animal or to remove the animal to a specified place for inspection or treatment;

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of any goods, vehicle, package or container to label it;

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of an organism, potential carrier or other thing prohibited, controlled, regulated or managed under this Act to keep that organism, potential carrier or other thing in the possession of that person until further directed by the wildlife officer;

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of an organism, potential carrier or other thing prohibited, controlled, regulated or managed under this Act to leave that organism, potential carrier or other thing at a specified place until further directed by the wildlife officer.

If a person does not comply with a direction under subsection (2)(h), (i), (j) or (l) the wildlife officer may do anything the wildlife officer considers necessary to achieve, so far as is practicable, the purpose of the direction.

Without limiting subsection (3) or section 201(4)(b), a wildlife officer may move a vehicle to achieve the purpose of the direction.