Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A n authorised officer who enter s premises under subsection 11 (1) may exercise the following monitoring powers :
(a) the power to search the premises and any thing on the premises;
(b) the power to inspect, examine, take measurements of , or conduct tests (including by the taking of samples) concerning, any thing on the premises;
(c) the power to take photographs, make video or audio recordings or make sketches of the premises or any thing on the premises;
(d) if the authorised officer enter ed the premises by consent--to ask any person in or on the premises:
(i) to answer any questions put by the authorised officer; and
(ii) to produce any book, record or document requested by the authorised officer;
(e) if the authorised officer was authorised to enter the premises by a monitoring warrant--to require any person in or on the premises:
(i) to answer any questions put by the authorised officer; and
(ii) to produce any book, record or document requested by the authorised officer;
(f) the power to inspect any book, record or document on the premises;
(g) the power to take extracts from or make copies of any such book, record or document;
(h) the power to take onto premises such equipment and materials as the authorised officer requires for the purpose of exercising powers in relation to the premises;
( i ) the power to operate electronic equipment, and do other things, at the premises as mentioned in se ction 20 ;
(j ) the powers set out in subsections ( 2), (3) and (4).
Note: Failure to comply with paragraph ( 1)(e ) is an offence--see section 24 .
(2) The monitoring powers include the power to secure a thing for no more than 24 hours if:
(a) the thing is found during the exercise of monitoring powers on the premises; and
(b) an authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds that:
(i) the thing affords evidence of the commission of an offence against th e A utomotive Transformation Scheme , or evidence of the commission of an offence against the Crimes Act 1914 or the Criminal Code that relates to th e Scheme ; and
(ii) it is necessary to secure the thing in order to prevent it from being concealed, lost , destroyed or tampered with before a warrant to seize the thing is obtained.
(3) The monitoring powers include the power to operate equipment at the premises to see whether:
(a) the equipment; or
(b) a data storage device that:
(i) is at the premises; and
(ii) can be used with the equipment or is associated with it;
contains information that is relevant to:
(c) determining whether there has been compliance with the Automotive Transformation Scheme; or
(d) assessing the correctness of information provided under the Scheme.
(4) The monitoring powers include the following powers in relation to information described in subsection ( 3) found in the exercise of the power under that subsection:
(a) the power to operate facilities at the premises to put the information in documentary form and copy the documents so produced;
(b) the power to operate facilities at the premises to transfer the information to a disk, tape or other storage device that:
(i) is brought to the premises for the exercise of the power; or
(ii) is at the premises and the use of which for the purpose has been agreed in writing by the occupier of the premises;
(c) the power to remove from the premises a disk, tape or other storage device to which the information has been transferred in exercise of the power under paragraph ( b).