Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts36. Additional powers
(1) When a member of the Police Force exercises any of his or her powers under section 33 or under a warrant under section 34, the member may do any or all of the following:
(a) seize and detain any documents found in the course of exercising those powers if there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that they are property-tracking documents;
(b) take extracts from or make copies of, or download or print out, any property-tracking documents found in the course of exercising those powers;
(c) require a person who has control of any property-tracking documents found in the course of exercising those powers to make copies of, or download or print out, any property-tracking documents found in the course of exercising those powers;
(d) require a person to give to the member any information within the person's knowledge or control that is relevant to locating property that is reasonably suspected of being liable to forfeiture under this Act;
(e) require a person to give to the member any information within the person's knowledge or control that is relevant to determining whether or not property is liable to forfeiture under this Act;
(f) require a person to give the member, or arrange for the member to be given, any translation, codes, passwords or other information necessary to gain access to or to interpret and understand any property-tracking documents or information located or obtained in the course of exercising the member's powers under the warrant.
(2) A person who fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) commits an offence.
Penalty: 1 000 penalty units or imprisonment for 5 years.
(3) Without limiting subsection (2), a person fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (1) if the person -
(a) does not disclose material information of which the person had knowledge, or gives false information or a false document, in purported compliance with the requirement; and
(b) was aware, or could reasonably have been expected to have been aware, that the information was material or that the information or document was false.
(4) A person is not excused from complying with a requirement under subsection (1) on the grounds that complying with it would tend to incriminate the person or expose him or her to a penalty, but any information given in compliance with the requirement is not admissible in evidence in proceedings against the person for any offence except an offence against subsection (2).