NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 147 General powers of conservation officer in relation to places

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1992 - SECT 147

147 General powers of conservation officer in relation to places

(1) A conservation officer who enters or boards a place under this division may exercise any of the following powers—

(a) search any part of the place;

(b) inspect, examine, photograph or film anything in or on the place;

(c) take extracts from, and make copies of, any documents in or on the place;

(d) take into or onto the place such persons, equipment and materials as the conservation officer reasonably requires for the purpose of exercising any powers in relation to the place;

(e) require the occupier or any person in or on the place to give to the conservation officer reasonable assistance in relation to the exercise of the powers mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d) ;

(f) the powers mentioned in the following provisions—

(i) section 151 ;

(ii) section 152 ;

(iii) section 154 (1) (b) to (e) .

(2) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a requirement made under subsection (1) (e) .

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) It is a reasonable excuse for a person to fail to answer a question or produce a document (other than a document required to be kept by the person under a regulation) if answering the question, or producing the document, might tend to incriminate the person.

(4) A conservation officer who seizes or damages anything under this division must, as soon as it is reasonably practicable after seizing or damaging the thing, give written notice of particulars of the thing or damage.

(5) The notice must be given to—

(a) if anything is seized—the person from whom the thing was seized; or

(b) if damage was caused to anything—the person who appears to the conservation officer to be the owner of the thing.

(6) This section does not limit any power that a conservation officer has apart from this section.