New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEMP INDUSTRY ACT 2008 - SECT 27

27 Powers to inspect and seize things

(1) An inspector may, on any premises lawfully entered, do anything that in the opinion of the inspector is necessary to be done for the purposes of this Part, including (but not limited to) the things specified in subsection (2).

(2) An inspector may do any or all of the following:

(a) carry out surveillance activities,

(b) examine and inspect any part of the premises or any article or thing on the premises,

(c) make such examinations and inquiries as the inspector considers necessary,

(d) require records to be produced for inspection,

(e) examine and inspect any records,

(f) take copies of any records,

(g) take and remove samples of any plant or thing for analysis,

(h) seize anything that the inspector has reasonable grounds for believing is connected with an offence under this Act, the regulations or the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 ,

(i) do any other thing the inspector is empowered to do under this Part.

(3) The power to seize anything connected with an offence includes a power to seize:

(a) a thing with respect to which the offence has been committed, and

(b) a thing that will afford evidence of the commission of the offence, and

(c) a thing that was used for the purpose of committing the offence.

A reference to any such offence includes a reference to an offence that there are reasonable grounds for believing has been committed.