Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES ACT - SECT 30

(1) Subject to section 32, a Fisheries Officer may, for the purposes of assisting in the conservation or management of a fishery or for the enforcement of this Act or an instrument of a legislative or administrative character made under it at all reasonable times without warrant -

(a) stop, enter and examine any vehicle or vessel, or enter and examine any premises or place, or detain and examine any record, document, article, fishing gear, container, apparatus, or device, or open and examine the contents of an unlocked container, cupboard, drawer, chest, trunk, box, cage, or other receptacle;

(b) require a person to unlock any locked vehicle, vessel, premises, or place, or locked container, cupboard, drawer, chest, trunk, box, cage, or other receptacle, if the person is the owner of, is in possession of, or is the person who locked the item required to be unlocked, and is in the immediate vicinity;

(c) take samples and conduct tests;

(d) question any person and require the master of a vessel, or any other person, to give any explanation or information concerning that vessel or a vehicle, or any place, fish, aquatic life, fishing method, fishing gear, container, apparatus, record, document, article, device, or thing; and

(e) require the persons mentioned in paragraph (d) to produce any permit, authority, licence, or certificate issued in respect of that vessel, vehicle, person, or thing, within 7 days after the request, and to produce forthwith evidence of the person's identity,

where that Fisheries Officer has reasonable grounds to believe that any person is or has been engaged in taking, processing for sale, selling, or buying fish or aquatic life, or in aquaculture.

(2) A person shall comply with and not contravene a requirement made under subsection (1)(b), (d), or (e).