New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACT 1991 - SECT 25I

25I Search warrants

(1) An authorised officer may apply to an issuing officer for a search warrant if the applicant has reasonable grounds for believing that--

(a) a provision of this Act or the regulations or a condition of an authority has been or is being contravened on premises, or

(b) there are on the premises documents relevant to an inquiry under this Division and a person having custody or control of the documents has failed to comply with a requirement under this Act to produce those documents or to provide copies of them or extracts from them.

(2) An issuing officer to whom an application for a search warrant is made under this section may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising an authorised officer named in the warrant and any other person named in the warrant--

(a) to enter the premises concerned, and

(b) to search the premises for evidence of a contravention of this Act or the regulations or a condition of an authority.

(2A) A police officer may accompany an authorised officer who enters premises and searches for evidence under a search warrant as if the police officer were named in the warrant.

(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) In this section--

"issuing officer" means an authorised officer within the meaning of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .