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GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 153
Monitoring powers
- (1)
- The monitoring powers that an inspector may exercise under paragraph
152(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 thing on the premises that relates to a GMO;
- (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 warrant under
section 172to require any person in or on the premises to:
- (i)
- answer any questions put by the inspector; and
- (ii)
- 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 the 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 is evidential material;
and
- (iii)
- that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds would be lost,
destroyed or tampered with before the warrant can be obtained.
- (2)
- For the purposes of this Part, 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 the equipment or is associated with it;
contains information that is relevant to determining whether there has been
compliance with the Act or the regulations.
- (3)
- 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 (2), 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.
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