- personal property, vehicle or vessel, opening it and examining its contents.
Prohibited photography of protected area or protected place
29.—(1) A person must not take any photograph of a protected area or a protected place (whether from inside, outside or above that protected area or that protected place) without the permission of the authority of that protected area or that protected place.
(2) Where an authorised officer of a protected area or a protected place has any reason to suspect that a person is going to take, is taking or has taken any photograph of that protected area or that protected place in contravention of subsection (1), the authorised officer may do one or more of the following:
- (a) direct the person to immediately stop taking any photograph;
- (b) direct the person to immediately delete, erase or otherwise destroy any photograph taken;
- (c) direct the person to surrender to the authorised officer any photograph or any device containing, or any equipment used or about to be used to take, any photograph;
- (d) without warrant, and with such assistance and by such force as is reasonably necessary, seize any photograph taken or any device containing, or any equipment used or about to be used to take, any photograph.
(3) Every person who is given a direction under subsection (2) must comply with the direction.
(4) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.
(5) In this section and section 30, a reference to the taking of a photograph includes a reference to—
- (a) the making of a film or a video-recording;
