New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SECURITY INDUSTRY ACT 1997 - SECT 42

42 Search warrant

(1) A police officer may apply to an authorised officer for the issue of a search warrant if the police officer believes on reasonable grounds that any provision of this Act or the regulations is being or has been contravened on any premises.

(2) An authorised officer to whom any such application is made may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising any police officer 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) A police officer who enters any premises pursuant to a search warrant issued under this section may search the premises and seize anything that may reasonably be suspected to relate to the carrying on of a security activity.

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