CPA · Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act
Part 1 — Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods
25 Closure of Property by Director Director may enter property
order is in effect, the Director may enter the property without the
consent of the owner or occupant to close it and keep it closed.
(2) The Director may employ any tradespersons and workers that
the Director considers necessary to safely and effectively close the
property and keep it closed.
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(3) The Director may take any measures that the Director
considers necessary to safely and effectively close the property and
keep it closed, including
(a) ordering any occupants still occupying the property and any
other persons at the property to leave it immediately,
(b) attaching locks, hoardin g or other security devices,
(c) erecting fences,
(d) changing or terminating utility services, and
(e) making interior or exterior alterations to the property so that
it is not a hazard while it is closed.
(4) The Director may, for any purpose that the Director considers
appropriate, allow others access to property that is closed pursuant
to a community safety order.
(5) The Director is not responsible, whether at the end of the
period of closure or otherwise, for the removal or cost of removal
of anything attached to or erected at the property, or the reversal or
cost of reversal of anything done to or at the property, to close it or
keep it closed.