POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 22 Power to enter etc. for relevant laws

POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 22

22 Power to enter etc. for relevant laws

(1) For ensuring compliance with a relevant law, a police officer may do any of the following—

(a) at any reasonable time, enter and stay on a place used for a purpose under a licence under the relevant law;

(b) inspect, photograph or copy a prescribed item there or at a place with appropriate facilities for photographing or copying the item;

(c) seize a thing to which the relevant law applies, if the thing is evidence of the commission of an offence against the relevant law or another Act;

(d) require a licence holder or someone else apparently in possession of prescribed items to produce stated prescribed items for inspection;

(e) inspect security measures a person must maintain under the relevant law;

(f) require a licence holder or person apparently in possession or in charge of the place to give to the police officer reasonable help to do something mentioned in paragraph (b) or (e) .

(2) A police officer may enter a part of a place not used for the purpose for which entry is made, but only to get to the place used for the purpose.

(3) If a police officer takes a prescribed item to a place with facilities for photographing or copying the item, the police officer must—

(a) give the person from whom it is taken a receipt for the item as if it had been seized under this Act; and

(b) return the item to the place from which it was taken—

(i) as soon as practicable, but no later than the end of the next day the place is open for business; or

(ii) if a later time is agreed in writing between the police officer and the person from whom it was taken, no later than the later time.

(4) Each of the following persons is taken for this section to be a licence holder under a relevant law—

(a) a person who is required under the Drugs Misuse Act 1986 , section 43D to keep a register;

(b) a person who is required under the Road Use Management Act , section 133 to record information;

(c) a person who is required under the Medicines and Poisons Act 2019 to make a record in relation to a sale by retail of a substance that is a prescribed item.

(5) Also, each of the following places is taken for this section to be a place used under a licence under a relevant law—

(a) a place used by a person to carry out activities for which entries must be made in a register as mentioned in subsection (4) (a) ;

(aa) a place used by a person to carry out activities for which information must be recorded as mentioned in subsection (4) (b) ;

(b) a place used by a person to carry out activities for which records must be made as mentioned in subsection (4) (c) .

(6) In this section—


"inspect" includes examine and test.


"prescribed item" means—

(a) a document or thing that is required or permitted to be kept under a relevant law; or

(b) a thing declared under a regulation to be a prescribed item for this section.