Ancillary powers and duties
53 Ancillary powers and duties
This section applies in relation to the exercise of a power under this Part.
A DGO may record the exercise of a power, including by making an audiovisual recording.
A DGO exercising the power may authorise as many other people to assist in executing the power as are reasonably necessary in the circumstances.
In exercising the power a DGO, and any person assisting a DGO, may use any force that is reasonably necessary in the circumstances.
A DGO who seizes any thing may take reasonable measures to prevent the thing being concealed, lost, damaged or destroyed.
If it is not practicable to move any thing that has been seized, a DGO may do whatever is reasonably necessary to secure it where it is situated and to notify people that it is under seizure.
A person must not, without a DGO’s approval, interfere or deal with any thing that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, has been seized by a DGO.
Penalty: $5 000.
After entering a place or vehicle, a DGO must take reasonable steps to return it to the condition it was in immediately before the entry.
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