MARITIME TRANSPORT AND OFFSHORE FACILITIES SECURITY ACT 2003 - SECT 141 Maritime security inspector powers--participants

MARITIME TRANSPORT AND OFFSHORE FACILITIES SECURITY ACT 2003 - SECT 141

  (1)   A maritime security inspector may exercise the powers set out in subsection   (2) for the following purposes:

  (a)   determining whether a person or a ship is complying with this Act;

  (b)   investigating a possible contravention of this Act.

  (2)   For the purposes set out in subsection   (1), a maritime security inspector may do one or more of the following:

  (a)   enter and inspect:

  (i)   any area, building (other than a residence), vehicle or vessel under the control of a maritime industry participant; or

  (ii)   if a maritime industry participant operates from a residence or a part of a residence--the residence or the part of the residence from which the participant operates;

  (b)   inspect equipment in a place, vehicle or vessel mentioned in paragraph   (a);

  (ba)   make any still or moving image or any recording of equipment in a place, vehicle or vessel mentioned in paragraph   (a);

  (c)   observe the operating procedures of a maritime industry participant;

  (d)   discuss those procedures with an employee of the maritime industry participant or with another maritime industry participant;

  (e)   inspect, photograph or copy a document or record made or kept by a maritime industry participant;

  (f)   operate equipment at a place mentioned in paragraph   (a) for the purposes of gaining access to a document or record made or kept by a maritime industry participant.

  (3)   However, in exercising a power under this section, a maritime security inspector must not subject a person to greater indignity than is necessary and reasonable for the exercise of the power.