Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AGED CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY COMMISSION ACT 2018 - SECT 71

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   an authorised officer enters premises in accordance with section   64A or 65; or

  (b)   a regulatory official enters premises in accordance with section   68.

  (2)   The following are the search powers that the authorised officer or regulatory official may exercise in relation to the premises:

  (a)   the power to search the premises and any thing on the premises;

  (b)   the power to examine or observe any activity conducted on the premises;

  (c)   the power to inspect, examine, take measurements of or conduct tests on any thing on the premises;

  (d)   the power to make any still or moving image or any recording of the premises or any thing on the premises;

  (e)   the power to inspect any document on the premises;

  (f)   the power to take extracts from, or make copies of, any such document;

  (g)   the power to take onto the premises such equipment and materials as the officer or official (as the case may be) requires for the purpose of exercising powers in relation to the premises;

  (h)   the powers set out in subsections   72(1) and (4).