Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A coroner who has jurisdiction to investigate a disaster may, with such assistance as the coroner thinks fit:
(a) enter, if necessary with such force as is reasonable, and inspect a place and a thing in it; and
(b) take a copy of a document relevant to the investigation; and
(c) take possession of a thing that the coroner reasonably believes is relevant to the investigation and keep it until the investigation is finished.
(2) A coroner may, in writing, authorise a police officer, at or between specified times during a specified period, to do one or more of the following:
(a) enter, if necessary with such force as is reasonable, a specified place;
(b) inspect a specified place and any thing in it;
(c) copy specified documents or classes of documents;
(d) take possession of specified things or classes of things.
(3) A police officer must, on request, produce a copy of the authority mentioned in subsection (2) to the owner or occupier of the place or the person in possession of the document or thing inspected, copied or taken under that subsection.
(4) A coroner may release a thing kept under
subsection (2)(d) and may require a person to whom the thing is released to
give an undertaking to comply with reasonable conditions of release and the
person must comply with the undertaking.
Maximum penalty for an offence
against this subsection:
40 penalty units.