New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ACT 1989 - SECT 57

57 Power of entry and inspection

(1) A person authorised in writing by the Council or by the Minister may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether a person is contravening or has contravened this Act or the regulations:

(a) enter any premises which the authorised person has reasonable grounds for believing are premises at which the second-mentioned person carries on business as an entertainment industry representative or an entertainment industry employer, and

(b) exercise in the premises the functions specified in subsection (2).

(2) The functions that may be exercised in premises entered by an authorised person are as follows:

(a) the authorised person may require any person employed or engaged at the premises to produce to the authorised person such records or other documents as are required to be kept under this Act or the regulations and are in the custody or under the control of the person so employed or engaged, and

(b) the authorised person may take copies of any such records or other documents, and

(c) the authorised person may examine with respect to matters under this Act or the regulations any person employed or engaged at the premises, and

(d) the authorised person may make such other examinations and inquiries as the authorised person thinks necessary to ascertain whether the requirements of this Act or the regulations are being or have been contravened.

(3) An authorised person may not exercise the powers conferred by this section in relation to any part of any premises used for residential purposes except:

(a) with the permission of the occupier of the premises, or

(b) under the authority conferred by a search warrant issued under section 58.