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Section 79

Power to seize documents, etc.

of Land Public Transport Act 2010

ActIn forceProvision 83 of 244
Section 79
(1)

If any police officer, road transport officer or land public transport officer has reasonable cause to believe that a document carried on a relevant vehicle, or any licence, operator’s licence, record or other document produced to him pursuant to this Act by the driver or person in charge of a relevant vehicle is a document, a licence, an operator’s licence or a record in relation to which an offence under this

Act has been committed, he may seize or detach the document, licence, operator’s licence or record from the relevant vehicle.

(2)

If the licence or operator’s licence seized under subsection (1)

is a licence or operator’s licence which has been suspended under this

Act, the licence or operator’s licence shall be returned to the licensee, terminal licensee, intermediation business licensee or licensed operator, respectively, upon the expiry of the period of suspension.

(3)

For the purposes of this section—

“document” includes a badge;

“seize” includes the power to detach from the relevant vehicle.