Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A duly authorised officer may exercise the powers set out in subsection (2) in an operational area of a security regulated offshore facility for the purposes of determining whether a person or a ship is complying with this Act.
(2) For the purposes set out in subsection (1), a duly authorised officer may do one or more of the following:
(a) enter a security regulated offshore facility and inspect its operational areas (including any restricted access area in the operational area of the facility);
(b) observe and record operating procedures for the facility (whether carried out by the crew or some other person);
(c) inspect, photograph or copy any security record for the facility;
(d) if all or part of the facility is a ship regulated as an offshore facility--inspect, photograph or copy the ship's ISSC;
(e) operate equipment in the operational area of a security regulated offshore facility for the purposes of gaining access to a document or record relating to the facility.
(3) A duly authorised officer may exercise a power mentioned in subsection (2):
(a) if the power is exercised within the boundaries of a security regulated offshore facility--at any time and without notice; or
(b) otherwise--after giving the offshore facility operator for the facility concerned reasonable notice.
(4) However, in exercising a power under this section, a duly authorised officer must not subject a person to greater indignity than is necessary and reasonable for the exercise of the power.
(5) Also, in exercising a power under this section within the boundaries of a security regulated offshore facility, a duly authorised officer must take account of occupational health and safety requirements under the laws of the Commonwealth, a State or Territory applying at the facility.