New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY SECURITY OF PAYMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 32M

32M Powers that can be exercised on premises

(1) An authorised officer may, at any premises lawfully entered, do anything that in the opinion of the authorised officer is reasonably necessary to be done for an authorised purpose, including (but not limited to) the things specified in subsection (2).

(2) An authorised officer may do any or all of the following--

(a) make examinations and inquiries that the authorised officer considers necessary,

(b) direct a person to produce records for inspection,

(c) examine and inspect records,

(d) copy records,

(e) seize anything that the authorised officer has reasonable grounds for believing is connected with an offence against this Act or the regulations,

(f) do anything else authorised by or under this Act.

(3) The power to seize anything connected with an offence includes a power to seize--

(a) a thing with respect to which the offence has been committed, and

(b) a thing that will afford evidence of the commission of the offence, and

(c) a thing that was used for the purpose of committing the offence.

(4) The power to do a thing under this section includes a power to arrange for that thing to be done.

(5) A power to do something under this section in relation to a thing may be exercised without the consent of the owner of the thing.

(6) In this section, a reference to an offence includes a reference to an offence that there are reasonable grounds for believing has been committed.