Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An inspector who enters a workplace under section 163 may do all or any of the following:
(a) inspect, examine and make inquiries at the workplace;
(b) inspect and examine anything (including a document) at the workplace;
(c) bring to the workplace and use any equipment or materials that may be required;
(d) take measurements, conduct tests and make sketches or recordings (including photographs, films, audio, video, digital or other recordings);
(e) take and remove for analysis a sample of any substance or thing without paying for it;
(f) require a person at the workplace to give the inspector reasonable help to exercise the inspector's powers under paragraphs (a) to (e);
(g) exercise any compliance power or other power that is reasonably necessary to be exercised by the inspector for the purposes of this Act.
(2) A person required to give reasonable help under subsection (1)(f) must not, without reasonable excuse, refuse or fail to comply with the requirement.
Maximum penalty:
(a) in the case of an individual – $10 000; or
(b) in the case of a body corporate – $50 000.
Note for subsection (2)
Strict liability applies to each physical element of this offence – see section 12B.
(3) Subsection (2) places an evidential burden on the accused to show a reasonable excuse.