CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 241J

CHILDREN AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ACT 2004 - SECT 241J

241J .         Procedure on seizing things

        (1)         If an authorised officer or industrial inspector seizes any thing under this Division, the officer or inspector must give the person who was in possession of it a receipt for it in the approved form.

        (2)         If an authorised officer or industrial inspector seizes any thing under this Division, the officer or inspector must, if practicable, allow a person who is otherwise entitled to possession of it to have reasonable access to it.

        (3)         An authorised officer or industrial inspector who seizes any thing under this Division may take reasonable measures to prevent the thing being concealed, lost, damaged or destroyed.

        (4)         If it is not practicable to move any thing that has been seized, an authorised officer or industrial inspector may do whatever is reasonably necessary to secure it where it is situated and to notify people that it is under seizure.

        (5)         A person must not, without the approval of an authorised officer or industrial inspector, interfere or deal with any thing that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, has been seized by an authorised officer or industrial inspector.

        Penalty for this subsection: a fine of $12 000.

        [Section 241J inserted: No. 18 of 2021 s. 72.]