New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Subject to this Act and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Conservation Act 1987, every officer who has reason to believe or suspect that a breach of this Act or of any regulation made under it has been or is being committed, may enter, inspect, and examine any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, or hovercraft.
(2) An officer shall, before entering on any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, or hovercraft, produce his warrant of appointment or other evidence that he is an officer if asked to do so by the person in actual charge of the vehicle, vessel, aircraft, or hovercraft.
(3) An officer shall not enter, inspect, or examine any aircraft or hovercraft unless he is accompanied by the pilot in command, or the owner, or a representative or agent of the owner, of the aircraft or hovercraft.
(4) An officer shall not enter any dwellinghouse except pursuant to a warrant issued under section 14.
(5) Every officer may, in the course of any search under this section or section 14, open (by force if necessary) any container, package, or receptacle, and seize and take away any marine mammal supposedly illegally taken together with any such container, package, or receptacle, or seize and take away any thing which he has reason to believe will be evidence of a breach of the provisions of this Act or of any regulation made under it.
(6) Every person in or about any dwellinghouse, place, vehicle, or vessel inspected under the provisions of this Act, and the pilot in command and the owner and every agent or representative of the owner of any aircraft or hovercraft so inspected, shall—
(a) facilitate the entry, inspection, and examination by an officer:
(b) facilitate the removal of any container, package, receptacle, or thing.
Section 13(1): amended, on 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) of the Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65).
Section 13(4): amended, on 13 December 1979, by section 2 of the Marine Mammals Protection Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 98).
