Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts73. Exercise of powers in relation to residential premises
(1) An authorised officer must not enter residential premises except -
(a) with the consent of the owner or occupier of the premises; or
(b) under a search warrant issued under this section.
(2) A Justice who is satisfied, on the application of an authorised officer, that there is reasonable cause to permit the officer to enter residential premises with a view to exercising a power under section 72 or 74, may issue a warrant in relation to the premises directed to the authorised officer.
(3) A warrant issued under subsection (2) is, for a period of one month from its issue, sufficient authority -
(a) to the authorised officer to whom it is directed and a person authorised under section 72(1)(q) to enter the residential premises specified in the warrant; and
(b) to that authorised officer and that person to exercise in respect of the residential premises specified in the warrant the powers under section 72 or 74.
(4) Where it is impracticable for an authorised officer to apply in person to a Justice for a warrant under subsection (2) -
(a) the officer may make the application to a Justice by telephone; and
(b) the Justice may issue the warrant on that application.
(5) Where a Justice issues a warrant under subsection (4) -
(a) the Justice is to complete and sign the warrant, inform the authorised officer by telephone of its terms and record on the warrant the Justice's reasons for issuing it; and
(b) the authorised officer must -
(i) complete in duplicate a form of warrant in the terms provided by the Justice;
(ii) write on it the name of the Justice and the date and time of its issue; and
(iii) forward one of the copies to the Justice.
(6) On receiving the copy referred to in subsection (5)(b), the Justice must -
(a) compare it with the warrant signed by the Justice; and
(b) if satisfied that they are in substance identical, note this fact on the warrant and forward both the warrant and the copy to the Chief Executive Officer.
(7) A form of warrant prepared by an authorised officer under subsection (5)(b) has, if it is in substance identical with the terms of the warrant signed by the Justice, the same authority as that of a Justice's warrant issued under subsection (2).