New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ROAD TRANSPORT (GENERAL) ACT 1999 - SECT 41

41 Search warrants

(cf Traffic Act, s 4BD)

(1) A police officer may apply to an authorised justice for a search warrant if the police officer has reasonable grounds for believing that there is or, within 72 hours, will be on any premises a motor vehicle that has been operated as referred to in section 39.

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

(a) to enter the premises, and

(b) to search the premises for such a motor vehicle, and

(c) to seize such a motor vehicle, and otherwise deal with it, in accordance with section 39.

(3) Part 3 of the Search Warrants Act 1985 applies to a search warrant issued under this section.

(4) In this section, "authorised justice" and "premises" have the same meanings as they have in the Search Warrants Act 1985 .