Effect of entry warrant
71 Effect of entry warrant
An entry warrant has effect according to its content and this section.
An entry warrant may be executed by any inspector.
If in the course of executing an entry warrant in an area an inspector by chance finds a thing that is not specified in the warrant that the inspector suspects on reasonable grounds is —
a declared pest for the area where the warrant is executed, an unlisted organism or other thing prescribed for the purposes of this subsection; or
evidence of a contravention of this Act,
the inspector may seize the thing if the inspector reasonably suspects that it is necessary to do so for one or more of the following purposes —
to prevent the thing from being sold, disposed of, concealed, damaged, destroyed, interfered with or lost;
to preserve the thing’s evidentiary value;
to submit the thing to an analysis;
to prevent the thing being used in the commission of an offence under this Act.
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