Powers without warrant in emergency situations
268CR Powers without warrant in emergency situations
This section applies when an authorised officer is on premises under section 268CA if the officer reasonably suspects that:
a thing relevant to an offence against this Act or the regulations, the Crimes Act 1914 or the Criminal Code is on the premises; and
it is necessary to exercise a power under subsection (2) in order to prevent the thing from being concealed, lost or destroyed; and
it is necessary to exercise the power without the authority of a monitoring warrant because the circumstances are so serious and urgent.
The authorised officer may:
search the premises, and any receptacle on the premises, for the thing; and
seize the thing if he or she finds it there; and
exercise the powers mentioned in subsections 268CI(2) and (3) in relation to the thing.
This provision refers to the regulations (the regulations
). Made under this Act:
- Migration (United Nations Security Council Resolutions) Regulations 2007 · under s 504(1)
- Migration Regulations 1994 · under s 504
22 more instruments made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
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