Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) Without limiting section 8, if—
(a) a thing found at searchable premises or on a searchable rolling stock, bus or vessel is, or includes, a disk, tape or other device for the storage, receipt or transmission of information; and
(b) the equipment at searchable premises or on a searchable rolling stock, bus or vessel, may be used with the disk, tape or other device—
the transport safety officer, or a person assisting the officer, may operate the equipment to access the information.
(2) If the transport safety officer, or a person assisting the transport safety officer, finds that a disk, tape, or other device for the storage, receipt or transmission of information at searchable premises or on a searchable rolling stock, bus or vessel contains information the officer believes on reasonable grounds is relevant to determining whether a provision of this Act or a transport safety or infrastructure law has been contravened, the officer or person assisting the officer may—
(a) put the information in documentary form and seize the documents so produced; or
(b) copy the information to another disk, tape or other storage device and remove that storage device from the searchable premises or searchable rolling stock, bus or vessel; or
(c) if it is not practicable to put the information in documentary form nor to copy the information, seize the disk, tape or other storage device and the equipment that enables the information to be accessed.
(3) A transport safety officer, or a person assisting a transport safety officer, must not operate or seize equipment for the purpose mentioned in this section unless the officer or person assisting believes on reasonable grounds that the operation or seizure of the equipment can be carried out without damage to the equipment.
(4) In this section—
"information "has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 .