New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY SERVICES (COMPLAINTS, REVIEWS AND MONITORING) ACT 1993 - SECT 18

18 Search warrants

(1) The Ombudsman may apply to an authorised officer for a search warrant if the Ombudsman has reasonable grounds for believing that:

(a) on specified premises, this Act is being contravened, or

(b) entry to specified premises for the purpose of carrying out a search is necessary for the purposes for which powers under this Division may be exercised.

(2) An authorised officer to whom an application is made under this section may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant to the Ombudsman to enter and search the premises.

(3) Division 4 of Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 applies to a search warrant issued under this section.

(4) On entering any premises on the authority of a search warrant issued under this section, the Ombudsman may search the premises and may seize and carry away anything considered by the Ombudsman to be evidence of a contravention of this Act.

(5) This section does not authorise the Ombudsman to carry away anything for which the Ombudsman does not give a receipt.

(6) In executing a search warrant, the Ombudsman must be accompanied by a police officer.

(7) In this section:
"authorised officer" has the same meaning as it has in the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .