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MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 268CR Powers without warrant in emergency situations

MIGRATION ACT 1958 - SECT 268CR

Powers without warrant in emergency situations

  (1)   This section applies when an authorised officer is on premises under section   268CA if the officer reasonably suspects that:

  (a)   a thing relevant to an offence against this Act or the regulations, the Crimes Act 1914 or the Criminal Code is on the premises; and

  (b)   it is necessary to exercise a power under subsection   (2) in order to prevent the thing from being concealed, lost or destroyed; and

  (c)   it is necessary to exercise the power without the authority of a monitoring warrant because the circumstances are so serious and urgent.

  (2)   The authorised officer may:

  (a)   search the premises, and any receptacle on the premises, for the thing; and

  (b)   seize the thing if he or she finds it there; and

  (c)   exercise the powers mentioned in subsections   268CI(2) and (3) in relation to the thing.

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