Section 166 — Work Health and Safety Act 2011: Persons assisting inspectors

(1) A person (the assistant), including an interpreter, may accompany the inspector entering a workplace under section 163 to assist the inspector if the inspector considers the assistance is necessary. (2) The assistant: (a) may do the things at the place and in the manner that the inspector reasonably requires to assist the inspector to exercise compliance powers; but (b) must not do anything that the inspector does not have power to do, except as permitted under a search warrant. (3) Anything done lawfully by the assistant is taken for all purposes to have been done by the inspector.