GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 173 Offence - related warrants

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 173

  ( 1)   An inspector may apply to a magistrate for a warrant under this section in relation to premises.

  (2)   Subject to subsection   ( 3), the magistrate may issue the warrant if the magistrate is satisfied, by information on oath, that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is, or there may be within the next 72 hours, evidential material in or on the premises.

  (3)   The magistrate must not issue the warrant unless the inspector or some other person has given to the magistrate, either orally or by affidavit, such further information (if any) as the magistrate requires concerning the grounds on which the issue of the warrant is being sought.

  (4)   The warrant must:

  (a)   name one or more inspectors; and

  (b)   authorise the inspectors so named, with such assistance and by such force as is necessary and reasonable:

  (i)   to enter the premises; and

  (ii)   to exercise the powers set out in subsection   154(3) and section   155; and

  (iii)   to seize the evidential material; and

  (c)   state whether the entry is authorised to be made at any time of the day or night or during specified hours of the day or night; and

  (d)   specify the day (not more than one week after the issue of the warrant) on which the warrant ceases to have effect; and

  (e)   state the purpose for which the warrant is issued.