Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of this Division, the monitoring powers include the power to operate equipment at premises to see whether:
(a) the equipment; or
(b) a disk, tape or other storage device that:
(i) is at the premises; and
(ii) can be used with equipment or is associated with it;
contains information that is relevant to determining whether there has been compliance with this Part or regulations made for the purposes of this Part, or the SSBA Standards.
(2) If the inspector, after operating equipment at the premises, finds that the equipment, or that a tape, disk or other storage device at the premises, contains information mentioned in subsection (1), the inspector may:
(a) operate facilities at the premises to put the information in documentary form and copy the document so produced; or
(b) if the information can be transferred to a tape, disk or other storage device that:
(i) is brought to the premises; or
(ii) is at the premises and the use of which for the purpose has been agreed to in writing by the occupier of the premises;
operate the equipment or other facilities to copy the information to the storage device, and remove the storage device from the premises.