Section 30: Powers to enter premises.

(1) An officer of the Agency may, in the course of his duty, at any reasonable time and on production of his certificate of designation if so required:
(a) enter and search with a warrant issued by a court, any premises including land, vehicle, tent, vessel, floating craft except Maritime Tankers, Barges or Floating Production, Storage, Offload (FPSO) and oil and gas facilities or any inland water and other structure, at all times, for the purpose of conducting, inspection, searching and taking samples for analysis which he reasonably believes, carries out activities or stores goods which contravene environmental standards or legislation;
(b) examine any article found pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection, which appears to him to be an article to which this Act or the regulations made under apply or anything which he reasonably believes is capable of being used to the detriment of the environment;
(c)
take a sample or specimen of any article to which this Act or the regulations apply or which he has power to examine under paragraph (b) of this subsection;
(d) open and examine, pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection, any container or package which he reasonably believes may contain anything to which this Act or its regulations apply or which may help in his investigations;
(e) examine any book, document or other record found pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection, which he reasonably believes may contain any information relevant to the enforcement of this Act or the regulations and make copies thereof or extracts there from;
(f) seize and detain for such time as may be necessary for the purpose of this Act, any articles by means of or in relation to which he reasonably believes any provision of this Act or the regulations has been contravened; and
(g) obtain an order of a court to suspend activities, seal and close down premises including land, vehicle, tent, vessel, floating craft or any inland water and other structure whatsoever.
(2) A written receipt shall be given for any article or thing seized under subsection (1) of this section and the reasons for such seizure shall be stated on such receipt.
(3) An article seized under this Act shall be kept or stored in such a place as the officer of the Agency may direct and shall be returned to the owner or the person from whom it was seized if the article upon analysis or examination is found to conform with the requirements of this Act or regulations made under it.
(4) An article other than in the oil and gas sector, seized by an officer of the Agency in pursuance of this Act or the regulations made under it, may be submitted to an analyst for analysis or examination and the analyst upon making such analysis or examination shall, issue a certificate or report in the prescribed form, setting forth the result of such analysis or examination and the officer of the Agency shall, on demand, deliver a copy of such certificate or report to the owner of the article if the article is to be the subject of a proceeding under this Act or regulations thereunder.
(5) In this section, the expression "article" to which this Act or regulations made under it apply are:
(a) liquid, soil, vegetation;
(b) biological and chemical samples;
(c) particulate filters, air quality gauges; and
(d) such other articles or samples as may be determined by the Agency.