New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ROYAL COMMISSION (POLICE SERVICE) ACT 1994 - SECT 16

16 Authority conferred by warrant

(s 41 ICAC Act)

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

(a) to enter the premises, and

(b) to search the premises for documents or other things connected with any matter that is the subject of the Commission’s inquiry, 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 executing a search warrant may search a person found in or on the premises whom the police officer reasonably suspects of having a document or other thing mentioned in the warrant.

(3) If the person executing a search warrant is a police officer under the law of another State or of a Territory or the Commonwealth, he or she may exercise the functions of a police officer under subsection (2).

(4) Section 12 (Inspection and copies of documents) of the 1923 Act extends to apply to a document or other thing seized pursuant to a search warrant.