New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SWIMMING POOLS ACT 1992 - SECT 29

29 Search warrants may be issued by authorised officers

(1) An inspector may apply to an authorised officer for a search warrant if the inspector has reasonable grounds for believing that an offence against this Act is being or has been committed in or on any premises.

(2) An authorised officer to whom such an application is made may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising an inspector named in the warrant:

(a) to enter the premises, and

(b) to search the premises for evidence of an offence against this Act.

(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) Without limiting the generality of section 71 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 , a police officer:

(a) may accompany an inspector executing a search warrant issued under this section, and

(b) may take all reasonable steps to assist the inspector in the exercise of the inspector’s functions under this section.

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