Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

In this section —

to examine or operate it;

to photograph, measure or otherwise make a record of it;

to take an impression of it;

to take samples of or from it;

to do tests on it, or on any sample taken under paragraph (d), for forensic purposes.

If a wildlife officer takes a sample or specimen under section 203(i) the wildlife officer may do a forensic examination on it or arrange for a forensic examination to be done on it.

If a wildlife officer, when exercising a power under this Division, finds a thing that may be seized under section 206, then whether or not the wildlife officer seizes the thing, the wildlife officer may do a forensic examination on it or arrange for a forensic examination to be done on it.

If it is reasonably necessary to do so in order to do a forensic examination, the sample, specimen or thing may be dismantled, damaged or destroyed.

The power in subsection (3) must not be exercised in relation to a thing that may contain information that is privileged, as that term is defined in the CI Act section 151(1), until under that section (as applied by section 206(3) of this Act) —

a decision is made that the information is not privileged; or

orders have been made to enable the power to be exercised.