Victorian Numbered Acts

MAJOR EVENTS (AERIAL ADVERTISING) ACT 2007 (NO. 13 OF 2007) - SECT 30

    (1)     If—

        (a)     a thing found at a premises is or includes a disk, tape or other information storage device; and

        (b)     equipment at the premises may be used with the disk, tape or other information storage device; and

        (c)     an authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds that the information stored on the disk, tape or other information storage device is relevant to determine whether this Act has been contravened—

the authorised officer may operate, or may require the occupier or an employee of the occupier to operate, the equipment to access the information.

    (2)     If an authorised officer finds that a disk, tape or other information storage device at the premises contains information of the kind referred to in subsection (1)(c), the authorised officer—
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        (a)     may put the information in documentary form and seize the documents so produced; or

        (b)     may copy the information to another disk, tape or other information storage device and remove that disk, tape or other information storage device from the premises; or

        (c)     if it is not practicable to put the information in documentary form or to copy the information, may seize the disk, tape or other information storage device and the equipment that enables the information to be accessed.

    (3)     An authorised officer must not operate or seize equipment for the purposes of this section unless the authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds that the operation or seizure of the equipment can be carried out without damage to the equipment.