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DANGEROUS GOODS SAFETY ACT 2004 (NO. 7 OF 2004) - SECT 37

37 .         Seizing samples, evidence etc.

        (1)         If a DGO suspects on reasonable grounds that there has been a contravention of this Act, the DGO may seize —

            (a)         any dangerous goods involved, or a sample of them, and any container or vehicle in which they are being stored or transported; and

            (b)         any thing that is or may afford evidence of the contravention.

        (2)         If a DGO suspects on reasonable grounds —

            (a)         that any substance or thing may be dangerous goods or an ingredient of dangerous goods; or

            (b)         that any thing may have been in contact with dangerous goods,

                the DGO, for enforcement purposes, may seize the substance, a sample of it, or the thing, or may direct —

            (c)         a person in possession of the substance or thing; or

            (d)         the person in charge, or apparently in charge of, a place or vehicle where the substance or thing is situated,

                to give the DGO the substance, a sample of it, or the thing, as the case requires.

        (3)         The direction may specify when and where the substance, a sample of it, or the thing is to be given to a DGO.

        (4)         A DGO who has seized or been given dangerous goods, a thing, substance or sample under this section —

            (a)         must give the person who was in possession of it a receipt for it in an approved form; and

            (b)         may, for forensic purposes, submit it to an examination or to testing.



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