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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 433

Power to conduct search of arrested person's premises

    An authorised officer who arrests a person at premises for an offence against an environmental law, or who is present at such an arrest, may seize a thing in plain view at those premises that the authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds to be:

  (a)   evidential material in relation to that or another offence against an environmental law; or

  (aa)   evidential material in relation to a contravention of an environmental penalty provision; or

  (b)   an eligible seizable item.


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