New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) ACT 2002 - SECT 210O

210O Entering land to enforce stock mustering order

(1) A person authorised by a stock mustering order to enter land may enter the land and do the things that the person is authorised to do by the stock mustering order.

(2) Before land is first entered under the authority of a stock mustering order, the owner of the relevant stock, or the police officer who applied for the order, must cause a notice to be prepared that--

(a) contains a summary of the stock mustering order, and

(b) specifies the intention of the person named in the order, or any police officer, to enter, or to authorise entry to, the land to act in accordance with the order on or from a date specified in the order (the
"enforcement date" ).

(3) A copy of the notice must be served, not less than 7 days before the enforcement date--

(a) personally on the owner of, or person managing or controlling, the land to which the application relates, or

(b) if personal service cannot be effected promptly, by causing a copy of the notice to be affixed to or near at least one of the entrances to the land.

(4) A copy of the notice must also be served on the police officer in charge of the police station closest to the land to which the notice relates, not less than 7 days before the enforcement date.

(5) A stock mustering order does not authorise a police officer or any other person to enter any part of land that is used for residential purposes.