WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 520
Persons assisting authorised persons
520 Persons assisting authorised persons
(1) A person (the
"assistant" ), including an interpreter, may accompany an authorised person
entering a place under section 518to assist the authorised person if the
authorised person considers the assistance is necessary.
(2) The assistant—
(a) may do the things at the place, and in the way, that the authorised person
reasonably requires to assist the authorised person to exercise the authorised
person’s powers under this part; but
(b) must not do anything that the
authorised person does not have power to do, except as permitted under a
search warrant.
(3) Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all
purposes to have been done by the authorised person.
