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NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY ACT 2007 - SECT 66

Monitoring powers

  (1)   The monitoring powers that an inspector may exercise under paragraph   65(1)(b) are as follows:

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

  (b)   to inspect, examine, take measurements of, conduct tests on, or take samples of, any biological agent that is, or is suspected of being, a security - sensitive biological agent on the premises;

  (c)   to take photographs, make video or audio recordings or make sketches of the premises or any thing on the premises;

  (d)   if the inspector 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 inspector; and

  (ii)   to produce any book, record or document requested by the inspector;

  (e)   to inspect any book, record or document on the premises;

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

  (g)   to take onto premises such equipment and materials as the inspector requires for the purpose of exercising powers in relation to the premises;

  (h)   to secure a thing, until a warrant is obtained to seize it, being a thing:

  (i)   that the inspector finds during the exercise of monitoring powers on the premises; and

  (ii)   that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds may afford evidence of the commission of an offence against this Part or the Crimes (Biological Weapons) Act 1976 ; and

  (iii)   that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds would be lost, destroyed or tampered with before the warrant can be obtained;

  (i)   to operate electronic equipment, and do other things, at the premises as mentioned in section   67.

  (2)   A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under paragraph   (1)(d).

Penalty:   30 penalty units.



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