Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Power to obtain information

293: Conditions of entry, search, and seizure

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"Rules for inspectors to follow when entering and searching a place"

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When you are a compliance officer, you must make sure any equipment you take into a place is free from contamination and in good working order. You have to take all reasonable steps to ensure this. If you are searching a place, section 110(e) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 applies to you.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Power to obtain information

293Conditions of entry, search, and seizure

  1. A compliance officer must take all reasonable steps to ensure that any equipment the officer has taken into a place is—

  2. free from contamination; and
    1. in good working order.
      1. Section 110(e) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 applies.

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