New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HOME BUILDING ACT 1989 - SECT 126A

126A Search warrants

(1) An authorised person may apply to an issuing officer for a search warrant if the applicant has reasonable grounds for believing that a provision of this Act or the regulations has been or is being contravened on premises.

(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 person 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.

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

(4) Division 4 of Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 applies to a search warrant issued under this section.

(5) In this section--

"authorised person" means a person authorised to enter premises by section 126.

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