Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) An acquiring authority may authorize a person, in writing, to enter on land to ascertain whether that or other land is suitable for an authorized purpose or to obtain information in relation to land.
(2) A person authorized to enter on land to ascertain whether that land is suitable for an authorized purpose or to obtain information in relation to that land may –
(a) enter and remain on that land with such assistants, vehicles, machinery and equipment as the person thinks fit; and
(b) make surveys, take levels, sink pits, examine the soil, take samples and do any other thing in relation to the land; and
(c) remove from the land any samples taken under paragraph (b).
(3) A person authorized to enter on land to ascertain whether other land is suitable for an authorized purpose or to obtain information in relation to other land may enter and remain on the first-mentioned land with such assistants, vehicles, machinery and equipment as the person thinks fit.
(4) An authorization under subsection (1) is valid for the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which the authorization was given.
(5) A person who is authorized to enter on land under subsection (1) must, more than 4 days before the day on which the person enters on that land, notify the prescribed persons of –
(a) the person's intention to enter on that land; and
(b) the purpose of the entry; and
(c) the nature of the work the person proposes to carry out or the use to which the person proposes to put that land; and
(d) the probable duration of the entry.
Penalty:
Fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
(6) In subsection (5), "prescribed persons" means –
(a) the occupier, if any, of the land that a person is authorized to enter under subsection (1); and
(b) the owner in fee simple of that land; and
(c) if that land is not subject to the Land Titles Act 1980 but is subject to a mortgage, the mortgagor.