New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HERITAGE ACT 1977 - SECT 148

148 Entry and inspection

(1) Subject to subsection (2) the Minister may authorise a person to carry out inspections, for the purposes of this Act, of buildings, works, relics, moveable objects and places and a person so authorised shall be provided by the Minister with a certificate of his or her authority in the prescribed form.

(2) Where a person authorised under subsection (1) believes on reasonable grounds that a building, work, relic, moveable object or place, is or contains an item of the environmental heritage, the person may--

(a) at any reasonable time after giving reasonable notice of his or her intention to do so to the person apparently in charge of or having the custody of that building, work, relic, moveable object or place, or

(b) at any time with the consent of the person referred to in paragraph (a),

carry out an inspection of that building, work, relic, moveable object or place.

(3) A person authorised under subsection (1), in exercising his or her functions under this section in respect of a building, work, relic, moveable object or place, shall, if so required by a person apparently in charge of that building, work, relic, moveable object or place, produce the certificate of his or her authority to that person.