Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 133B

  (1)   An inspector may enter premises in or from which a person, in trade or commerce, supplies consumer goods, if the public has access to the premises at the time of entry, for the purpose of ascertaining whether:

  (a)   any of those consumer goods will or may cause injury to any person; or

  (b)   a reasonably foreseeable use (including a misuse) of those consumer goods will or may cause injury to any person;

and remain on the premises for such a purpose while the public has access to the premises.

  (2)   While on the premises, the inspector may:

  (a)   take photographs of:

  (i)   any of those consumer goods; or

  (ii)   equipment used in the manufacturing, processing or storage any of those consumer goods; and

  (b)   inspect, handle and measure any of those consumer goods; and

  (c)   purchase any of those consumer goods.