New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE INTEGRITY COMMISSION ACT 1996 - SECT 46

46 Authority conferred by search warrant

(cf ICAC Act s 41; RC (PS) Act s 16 (1) (2))

(1) A search warrant authorises a police officer, or any other person, named in the warrant:

(a) to enter the premises specified in the warrant, and

(b) to search the premises for documents or other things connected with any matter that is being investigated under this Act, and

(c) to seize any such documents or other things found in or on the premises and deliver them to the Commission.

(2) A police officer, or a senior Commission investigator, named in and executing a search warrant may search a person found in or on the premises whom the police officer or senior Commission investigator reasonably suspects of having a document or other thing mentioned in the warrant.

(3) In this section:
"senior Commission investigator" means an officer of the Commission who is designated by the Commissioner as a senior investigator and who is issued by the Commissioner with means of identification as such a senior Commission investigator.