Section 24

enter and inspect any premises where public entertainment is provided, or that the inspecting officer believes on reasonable grounds is used for the provision of public entertainment;

photograph or film, or make a record or sketches of, any part of the premises, or any person or thing at the premises;

require any person on those premises to produce or grant access to, without charge, any document, information or article reasonably required for any purpose in subsection (1), which is in the possession or under the control of that person;

inspect and make copies of or take extracts from any document or article mentioned in paragraph (c); and

subject to section 25(6), take possession of a document or article mentioned in paragraph (c) if, in the inspecting officer’s opinion —

the inspection or copying of or extraction from the document or article cannot reasonably be performed without taking possession;

the document or article may be interfered with or destroyed unless possession is taken; or

the document or article may be required as evidence in any proceedings instituted or commenced under this Act.

to require the person, or any person who is or was an officer or employee of that person, to provide an explanation of the document, information or article; (b)if the document, information or article is not provided, to require the person to state, to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, where it is; and

if the document, information or article is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the document, information or article to be made available to the inspecting officer in legible form.

the power of the inspecting officer to inspect the document or to obtain the information includes the power to —

access any computer or other equipment (including a mobile telephone) in which the document or information is stored; and

require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer or equipment to provide assistance in gaining such access; and

the power of the inspecting officer to seize the document includes the power —

to make copies of the document in legible or electronic form; and

to transfer the information from the document to a disk, tape or other storage device.

subject to section 25(6), seize the computer or other equipment (including a mobile telephone) in which the document or information is stored, as evidence in proceedings for an offence under this Act; and

require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer or equipment to disclose any password or access code for gaining access to the document or information held in the computer or equipment.