Victorian Current Acts

BUILDING ACT 1993 - SECT 228F

An authorised person must not enter and search any building under section 228E where consent is required to enter unless, before the occupier consents to the entry and search, the authorised person has informed the occupier—

        (a)     of the purpose of the search; and

        (b)     that the occupier may refuse to give consent to the entry and search or to the seizure of any thing found during the search; and

        (c)     that the occupier may refuse to give consent to the taking of any sample of a thing or any copy or extract from a document found in or on the building during the search; and

        (d)     that the occupier may refuse to produce any document required to be produced for examination; and

        (e)     that any thing seized or taken during the search with the consent of the occupier may be used in evidence in proceedings.

S. 228G inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 46.