SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND WATER (DISTRIBUTION AND RETAIL RESTRUCTURING) ACT 2009 - SECT 53CS
Issue of warrant
SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND WATER (DISTRIBUTION AND RETAIL RESTRUCTURING) ACT 2009 - SECT 53CS
Issue of warrant
53CS Issue of warrant
(1) The magistrate may issue the warrant for the place only if the magistrate
is satisfied there are reasonable grounds for suspecting—
(a) there is a
particular thing or activity (the
"evidence" ) that may provide evidence of a discharge offence; and
(b) the
evidence is at the place, or, within the next 7 days, may be at the place.
(2) The warrant must state—
(a) the place to which the warrant applies; and
(b) that a stated discharge officer may, with necessary and reasonable help
and force—
(i) enter the place and any other place necessary for the entry;
and
(ii) exercise the discharge officer’s powers under this chapter; and
(c) particulars of the offence that the magistrate considers appropriate in
the circumstances; and
(d) the name of the person suspected of having
committed the offence, unless the name is unknown or the magistrate considers
it inappropriate to state the name; and
(e) the evidence that may be seized
under the warrant; and
(f) the hours of the day or night when the place may
be entered; and
(g) the extent of re-entry permitted; and
(h) the date,
within 14 days after the warrant’s issue, the warrant ends.
(3) A provision
of this part applying to entry authorised under a warrant is taken also to
apply to any re-entry authorised under the warrant.