Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020

An authorised officer under this Act may apply to an issuing officer for the issue of a search warrant if the authorised officer believes on reasonable grounds that—

a requirement imposed by or under this Act is being or has been contravened at any premises, or

there is, in or on any premises, a matter or thing that is connected with an offence under this Act or the regulations.

An issuing officer to whom an application is made may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising an authorised officer named in the warrant—

to enter the premises, and

to exercise any function of an authorised officer under this Part.

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

Without limiting the generality of section 71 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002, a police officer—

may accompany an authorised officer executing a search warrant issued under this section, and

may take all reasonable steps to assist the authorised officer in the exercise of the officer’s functions under this section.

In this section—