Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FIREARMS ACT 1973 - SECT 26

26 .         Search warrant

        (1)         Where a Justice is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is in any place any firearm or ammunition, or any document or other thing —

            (a)         with respect to which under any written law an offence, involving any firearm, ammunition, silencer or other contrivance used in conjunction with a firearm, has been or is suspected, on reasonable grounds, to have been committed; or

            (b)         that, there are reasonable grounds for believing —

                  (i)         will afford evidence as to the commission of any such offence; or

                  (ii)         is intended to be used for the purpose of committing any such offence,

                the Justice may grant to a member of the Police Force a warrant to enter and search such place for any such firearm, ammunition or other thing, and to seize any such firearm, ammunition or other thing found.

        (2)         Where a Justice is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that any firearm or ammunition may be found on premises in the possession of a person in the circumstances described in section 24(2), the Justice may grant to a member of the Police Force a warrant to enter and search such premises for the purpose of exercising the powers given by that subsection.

        [Section 26 inserted by No. 59 of 1996 s. 28; amended by No. 59 of 2006 s. 73.]

[ 27.         Deleted by No. 78 of 1995 s. 46.]