Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007

An inspector may —

for inspection purposes, direct a person who is on or in a place, or who is or appears to be in possession or control of a place or thing, to —

state his or her full name and residential address and telephone number, and a local address and telephone number if the person is away from home and the inspector thinks it may be necessary to contact the person before he or she returns home; and

produce evidence of the person’s identity; and

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

give the inspector, orally or in writing, any information in the person’s possession or control that is relevant to carrying out the inspection;

for inspection purposes, direct a person who is or appears to be in possession or control of an organism, prescribed potential carrier, animal feed, fertiliser or chemical product to give the inspector any information in the person’s possession or control as to the name and address of any person from whom the organism, potential carrier, animal feed, fertiliser or chemical product was obtained or to whom a similar organism, potential carrier, animal feed, fertiliser or chemical product has been supplied; and

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of a place to give the inspector a plan, or access to a plan, of the place; and

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of a place or thing to give the inspector any assistance that the inspector reasonably needs to carry out the inspector’s functions in relation to the place or thing; and

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of a conveyance to take the conveyance to an inspection point, quarantine facility or other place for inspection or treatment; and

direct a person who is or could be carrying an organism or potential carrier to go to an inspection point, quarantine facility or other place for inspection or treatment; and

direct an importer or other person who is or appears to be in control of a consignment of goods or a potential carrier to remove the consignment or potential carrier to an inspection point, quarantine facility or other place for inspection or treatment; and

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

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 an inspection point, quarantine facility or other place for inspection or treatment; and

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of any goods, conveyance, package or container to label it to identify its contents; and

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of an organism or other thing regulated under this Act to keep that organism or other thing in the possession of that person until further directed by the inspector; and

direct a person who is or appears to be in control of an organism or other thing regulated under this Act to leave that organism or other thing at an inspection point, quarantine facility or other place until further directed by the inspector.

If a person does not comply with a direction under subsection (1)(e), (f), (g) or (i) the inspector may do anything the inspector considers necessary to achieve, so far as is practicable, the purpose of the direction.

Without limiting subsection (2), an inspector may move a conveyance to achieve the purpose of the direction.