NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 146
Entry and search—evidence of offences
NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 146
Entry and search—evidence of offences
146 Entry and search—evidence of offences
(1) Subject to subsection (3) , if a conservationofficer has reasonable
grounds for suspecting that there is in a place a particular thing (
"the evidence" ) that may afford evidence of the commission of an offence
against this Act, the officer may—
(b) the officer may keep the evidence for
6 months or, if a prosecution for an offence against this Act in the
commission of which the evidence may have been used or otherwise involved is
instituted within that period, until the completion of the proceeding for the
offence and any appeal in relation to the proceeding;
(c) if the evidence is
a document—while the officer has possession of the document, the officer may
take extracts from and make copies of the document, but must allow the
document to be inspected at any reasonable time by a person who would be
entitled to inspect it if it were not in the officer’s possession.
(3) A
conservationofficer must not enter the place or exercise a power under
subsection (1) unless—
(a) the occupier of the place consents to the entry
or exercise of the power; or
(b) a warrant under section 149that was issued
in relation to the evidence authorises the entry or exercise of the power.
(4) If, while searching the place under subsection (1) under a warrant under
section 149—