Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99B: Powers of enforcement officers

You could also call this:

"What enforcement officers can and can't do when checking properties"

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If you are an enforcement officer, you can go onto someone's property to check if they are following the rules, but you need special permission from the Minister. You can go on the property at a reasonable time, but you cannot enter a house or a marae. You have to leave a note if the owner is not there, with the date and time of your visit and your name. If you want to enter certain types of land, you need to get the landowner's permission, as some laws say you cannot enter without it.

When you are checking a property, you can take someone with you to help, and they can do the same things you can do. This means they can also check if the rules are being followed, as long as they are helping you with your job. You can find more information about this rule in the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013.

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99A: Appointment of enforcement officers, or

"Who can be chosen as enforcement officers to help keep the law"

99C: Application for warrant for entry to search, or

"Asking for a special permit to search a place for something illegal"

Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99BPowers of enforcement officers

Any enforcement officer, specifically authorised in writing by the Minister to do so, may at all reasonable times go on, into, under, or over any place or structure, except a dwellinghouse or marae, for the purpose of determining whether a permit, this Act, or the regulations are being complied with.
If the owner or occupier of a place subject to inspection is not present at the time of the inspection, the enforcement officer must leave in a prominent position at the place, or attached to a structure on the place, a written notice showing the date and time of the inspection and the name of the officer carrying out the inspection.
An enforcement officer may not enter, unless the permission of the landowner is obtained, any land that any other Act states may not be entered without that permission.
An enforcement officer who exercises the power of inspection under this section may be accompanied by any person or persons reasonably necessary to assist the enforcement officer with the inspection.
A person who provides assistance under subsection (4) may exercise the powers provided to enforcement officers under subsection (1).

Notes

Section 99B: inserted, on 24 May 2013, by section 52 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).