Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00510:section:66
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00510
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 66
Character Range: 143997–145745

66  Monitoring powers
 (1) The monitoring powers that an inspector may exercise under paragraph 65(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 biological agent that is, or is suspected of being, a security‑sensitive biological agent on the premises;
 (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 monitoring warrant—to require any person in or on the premises:
 (i) to answer any questions put by the inspector; and
 (ii) to 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 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 may afford evidence of the commission of an offence against this Part or the Crimes (Biological Weapons) Act 1976; and
 (iii) that the inspector believes on reasonable grounds would be lost, destroyed or tampered with before the warrant can be obtained;
 (i) to operate electronic equipment, and do other things, at the premises as mentioned in section 67.
 (2) A person must not refuse or fail to comply with a requirement under paragraph (1)(d).
Penalty: 30 penalty units.